[Zope] string splitting in dtml

[Spicklemire, Jerry]

Mike asked:

> I have a date string (ie dd/mm/yy) which I'm drawing out of a database
> (ODBC connection to Access) with a Z SQL method and I need to use that
> data to set the initial condition of a set of 3 select items (ie day,
> month and year).  Is there a way to split this date (it'll come out
> looking like dd/mm/yy) to get the components of it 

You could use the Python "string slice" syntax, like so:

<dtml-let day_of_month="_['start_date'][:2]"
          month_of_year="_['start_date'][3:5]"
          year_of_century="_['start_date'][6:8]">
The <dtml-var day_of_month> day,<br>
of the <dtml-var month_of_year> month,<br>
of the year 20<dtml-var month_of_century><br>
</dtml-let>

Later,
Jerry S.