Question

I have these 2 things I am working with:

CSV.foreach('datafile.csv','r') {|row| D_Location << row[0]}

puts Date.new(2003,05,02).cwday

In the first line I would like to change the datafile.csv to something like a string so I can change one string and it changes for all of these codes. I have many, each controlling 1 csv column.

In the second one I would like to replace the actual date written, and replace it with a string. This is so that can be automatic, because the string will be generated based on other criteria.

I trust the mods will ban me if I’m being too much of a noob hehe. Then I’ll toughen up and find these answers myself eventually. But so far I’ve solved a lot, but not this. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Make a function which takes in a string representing a weekday, and returns a number. Call this function later in your code:

Date.new(2003, 05, yourfun('Tuesday')).cwday