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  • A AFell2

    Took this a step further and extended the code, and it should work with culture:

    void Main()
    {
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();

    Enumerable.Range(1, 12)
        .ToList()
        .ForEach(e => PopulateDayOfMonth(2021, e, builder));
        
    Console.WriteLine(builder.ToString().Trim());
    

    }

    static void PopulateDayOfMonth(int year, int month, StringBuilder builder)
    {
    builder.AppendLine();
    int space = 6;
    int dashLine = 1 + (space * 7);

    IEnumerable days = Enumerable.Range(1, DateTime.DaysInMonth(year, month))
        .Select(d => new DateTime(year, month, d));
    
    builder.AppendLine(days.First().ToString("MMMMM"));
    builder.Append('-', dashLine);
    builder.AppendLine();
    builder.AppendLine($"|{string.Join("|", Enum.GetNames(typeof(DayOfWeek)).Select(d => $" {d.Substring(0, 3)} "))}|" );
    builder.Append('-', dashLine);
    builder.AppendLine();
    DayOfWeek dow = days.First().DayOfWeek;
    
    while (dow != 0)
    {
        builder.Append(' ', space);
        dow--;
    }
    
    bool first = true;
    
    foreach (var d in days)
    {
        if (!first && d.DayOfWeek == 0)
        {
            builder.AppendLine("|");
            builder.Append('-', dashLine);
            builder.AppendLine();
        }
    
        builder.Append($"|{d.Day.ToString().PadLeft(space - 2)} ");
        first = false;
    }
    
    builder.AppendLine("|");
    builder.Append('-', dashLine);
    builder.AppendLine();
    

    }

    With the following output:

    January

    | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |

                              |   1 |   2 |
    

    | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |

    | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |

    | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |

    | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |

    | 31 |

    February

    | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |

      |   1 |   2 |   3 |   4 |   5 |   6 |
    

    | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |

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    :thumbsup:

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    • M Marc Clifton

      OK, reformatted to protect the guilty. Write a function in your favorite language to create a "day view" in an array for a month, like 11/2019. So for that month/year, the array should look like this, where the day numbers not in the month are null or undefined:

                               1    2
      3    4    5    6    7    8    9
      

      10 11 12 13 14 15 16
      17 18 19 20 21 22 23
      24 25 26 27 28 29 30

      My solution in C#, which uses an extension method:

      int?[] days = new int?[6 * 7];
      var dow = (int)new DateTime(2019, 11, 1).DayOfWeek;
      Enumerable.Range(1, DateTime.DaysInMonth(2019, 11)).ForEachWithIndex((idx, n) => days[dow + idx] = n);

      And the output function:

      days.ForEachWithIndex((idx, n) => Console.Write(((idx % 7 == 0) ? "\r\n" : "") + (n?.ToString()?.PadLeft(5) ?? " ")));

      Which of course generates a leading CRLF, but oh well, that wasn't specifically indicated not to do so in the spec. :laugh: For the curious, this came up in a conversation with a coworker.

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      EliaMelfior
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      This could be a fun little puzzle. I just get tired thinking about solving it, i would have to search for a time library in javascript/php, and then format the output nicely. Just not in the mood for a little puzzle, does anyone identify with this feeling sometimes? Nice quiz though.

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      • M Member 11005478

        Sunday is part of the weekend. That's a clue as to the correct day that a week starts on

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        ZurdoDev
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        Member 11005478 wrote:

        weekend. That's a clue as to the correct day that a week starts on

        Just like bookends are all on one side. :laugh:

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        • M Marc Clifton

          OK, reformatted to protect the guilty. Write a function in your favorite language to create a "day view" in an array for a month, like 11/2019. So for that month/year, the array should look like this, where the day numbers not in the month are null or undefined:

                                   1    2
          3    4    5    6    7    8    9
          

          10 11 12 13 14 15 16
          17 18 19 20 21 22 23
          24 25 26 27 28 29 30

          My solution in C#, which uses an extension method:

          int?[] days = new int?[6 * 7];
          var dow = (int)new DateTime(2019, 11, 1).DayOfWeek;
          Enumerable.Range(1, DateTime.DaysInMonth(2019, 11)).ForEachWithIndex((idx, n) => days[dow + idx] = n);

          And the output function:

          days.ForEachWithIndex((idx, n) => Console.Write(((idx % 7 == 0) ? "\r\n" : "") + (n?.ToString()?.PadLeft(5) ?? " ")));

          Which of course generates a leading CRLF, but oh well, that wasn't specifically indicated not to do so in the spec. :laugh: For the curious, this came up in a conversation with a coworker.

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          Stuart Dootson
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          In Haskell (because, of course Haskell!): ```haskell import Data.List.Split import Data.Time.Calendar; import Data.Time.Calendar.Compat; import Data.Time.Calendar.Julian; import Text.Printf printMonth :: Integer -> Int -> IO () printMonth year month = printWeeks entriesInMonth where -- printWeeks chunks the month's entries into weeks & prints each week on a new line printWeeks days = mapM_ (putStrLn.unwords) (chunksOf 7 days) -- entriesInMonth concatenates the empty entries at the start of the month with the days entriesInMonth = startPadding ++ daysOfMonth -- daysOfMonth generates a list of days of the month as strings daysOfMonth = map (printf "%2d") [1..(julianMonthLength year month)] -- startPadding generates blank strings for each empty entry before day '1' startPadding = replicate blanksBeforeDay1 " " -- blanksBeforeDay1 is the number of empty entries before day '1' blanksBeforeDay1 = (fromEnum $ dayOfWeek (fromJulian year month 1)) `mod` 7 ``` which gives: ``` > printMonth 2019 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 > printMonth 20190 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 > printMonth 20190 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ``` [ETA] That's using the Julian calendar - the standard Gregorian calendar can be used by replacing the word 'julian' or 'Julian' with 'gregorian'/'Gregorian'. And yes, I should be able to remember which calendar we use :-O [/ETA]

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            In Haskell (because, of course Haskell!): ```haskell import Data.List.Split import Data.Time.Calendar; import Data.Time.Calendar.Compat; import Data.Time.Calendar.Julian; import Text.Printf printMonth :: Integer -> Int -> IO () printMonth year month = printWeeks entriesInMonth where -- printWeeks chunks the month's entries into weeks & prints each week on a new line printWeeks days = mapM_ (putStrLn.unwords) (chunksOf 7 days) -- entriesInMonth concatenates the empty entries at the start of the month with the days entriesInMonth = startPadding ++ daysOfMonth -- daysOfMonth generates a list of days of the month as strings daysOfMonth = map (printf "%2d") [1..(julianMonthLength year month)] -- startPadding generates blank strings for each empty entry before day '1' startPadding = replicate blanksBeforeDay1 " " -- blanksBeforeDay1 is the number of empty entries before day '1' blanksBeforeDay1 = (fromEnum $ dayOfWeek (fromJulian year month 1)) `mod` 7 ``` which gives: ``` > printMonth 2019 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 > printMonth 20190 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 > printMonth 20190 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ``` [ETA] That's using the Julian calendar - the standard Gregorian calendar can be used by replacing the word 'julian' or 'Julian' with 'gregorian'/'Gregorian'. And yes, I should be able to remember which calendar we use :-O [/ETA]

            Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

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            Jorgen Andersson
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            So, I don't know shit about Haskell, but shouldn't it be Data.Time.Calendar.Gregorian instead of Data.Time.Calendar.Julian? Unless you're living in Russia that is.

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            • Z ZurdoDev

              Member 11005478 wrote:

              weekend. That's a clue as to the correct day that a week starts on

              Just like bookends are all on one side. :laugh:

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              Jorgen Andersson
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              Otherwise you could use Genesis 2.2 as a reference.

              Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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              • J Jorgen Andersson

                Otherwise you could use Genesis 2.2 as a reference.

                Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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                ZurdoDev
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                Jörgen Andersson wrote:

                Otherwise you could use Genesis 2.2 as a reference.

                Correct. The Old Testament week.

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                • M Marc Clifton

                  OK, reformatted to protect the guilty. Write a function in your favorite language to create a "day view" in an array for a month, like 11/2019. So for that month/year, the array should look like this, where the day numbers not in the month are null or undefined:

                                           1    2
                  3    4    5    6    7    8    9
                  

                  10 11 12 13 14 15 16
                  17 18 19 20 21 22 23
                  24 25 26 27 28 29 30

                  My solution in C#, which uses an extension method:

                  int?[] days = new int?[6 * 7];
                  var dow = (int)new DateTime(2019, 11, 1).DayOfWeek;
                  Enumerable.Range(1, DateTime.DaysInMonth(2019, 11)).ForEachWithIndex((idx, n) => days[dow + idx] = n);

                  And the output function:

                  days.ForEachWithIndex((idx, n) => Console.Write(((idx % 7 == 0) ? "\r\n" : "") + (n?.ToString()?.PadLeft(5) ?? " ")));

                  Which of course generates a leading CRLF, but oh well, that wasn't specifically indicated not to do so in the spec. :laugh: For the curious, this came up in a conversation with a coworker.

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                  Checkin rejected, hard-coded values. Just kidding, the knuckleheads I work with hard-code things all over the place, and management won't let us have any code reviews. Sigh.

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                  • J Jorgen Andersson

                    So, I don't know shit about Haskell, but shouldn't it be Data.Time.Calendar.Gregorian instead of Data.Time.Calendar.Julian? Unless you're living in Russia that is.

                    Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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                    Stuart Dootson
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                    >

                    Jörgen Andersson wrote:

                    shouldn't it be Data.Time.Calendar.Gregorian instead of Data.Time.Calendar.Julian You're quite right - and that's my mistake, getting Gregorian/Julian mixed up! Gregorian is actually the default, baked into `Data.Time.Calendar`, while Julian is the add-on... ```haskell import Data.List.Split import Data.Time.Calendar; import Data.Time.Calendar.Compat; import Text.Printf printMonth :: Integer -> Int -> IO () printMonth year month = printWeeks entriesInMonth where -- printWeeks chunks the month's entries into weeks & prints each week on a new line printWeeks days = mapM_ (putStrLn.unwords) (chunksOf 7 days) -- entriesInMonth concatenates the empty entries at the start of the month with the days entriesInMonth = startPadding ++ daysOfMonth -- daysOfMonth generates a list of days of the month as strings daysOfMonth = map (printf "%2d") [1..(gregorianMonthLength year month)] -- startPadding generates blank strings for each empty entry before day '1' startPadding = replicate blanksBeforeDay1 " " -- blanksBeforeDay1 is the number of empty entries before day '1' blanksBeforeDay1 = (fromEnum $ dayOfWeek (fromGregorian year month 1)) `mod` 7 ``` Being able to use `Data.Time.Calendar` rather than `Data.Time.Calendar.Julian` should have been a giveaway, shouldn't it :-O

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                    • S Stuart Dootson

                      >

                      Jörgen Andersson wrote:

                      shouldn't it be Data.Time.Calendar.Gregorian instead of Data.Time.Calendar.Julian You're quite right - and that's my mistake, getting Gregorian/Julian mixed up! Gregorian is actually the default, baked into `Data.Time.Calendar`, while Julian is the add-on... ```haskell import Data.List.Split import Data.Time.Calendar; import Data.Time.Calendar.Compat; import Text.Printf printMonth :: Integer -> Int -> IO () printMonth year month = printWeeks entriesInMonth where -- printWeeks chunks the month's entries into weeks & prints each week on a new line printWeeks days = mapM_ (putStrLn.unwords) (chunksOf 7 days) -- entriesInMonth concatenates the empty entries at the start of the month with the days entriesInMonth = startPadding ++ daysOfMonth -- daysOfMonth generates a list of days of the month as strings daysOfMonth = map (printf "%2d") [1..(gregorianMonthLength year month)] -- startPadding generates blank strings for each empty entry before day '1' startPadding = replicate blanksBeforeDay1 " " -- blanksBeforeDay1 is the number of empty entries before day '1' blanksBeforeDay1 = (fromEnum $ dayOfWeek (fromGregorian year month 1)) `mod` 7 ``` Being able to use `Data.Time.Calendar` rather than `Data.Time.Calendar.Julian` should have been a giveaway, shouldn't it :-O

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                      Jorgen Andersson
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                      Stuart Dootson wrote:

                      Being able to use Data.Time.Calendar rather than Data.Time.Calendar.Julian should have been a giveaway, shouldn't it :O

                      I wouldn't have known. :doh: :-O

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                      • A AFell2

                        Took this a step further and extended the code, and it should work with culture:

                        void Main()
                        {
                        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();

                        Enumerable.Range(1, 12)
                            .ToList()
                            .ForEach(e => PopulateDayOfMonth(2021, e, builder));
                            
                        Console.WriteLine(builder.ToString().Trim());
                        

                        }

                        static void PopulateDayOfMonth(int year, int month, StringBuilder builder)
                        {
                        builder.AppendLine();
                        int space = 6;
                        int dashLine = 1 + (space * 7);

                        IEnumerable days = Enumerable.Range(1, DateTime.DaysInMonth(year, month))
                            .Select(d => new DateTime(year, month, d));
                        
                        builder.AppendLine(days.First().ToString("MMMMM"));
                        builder.Append('-', dashLine);
                        builder.AppendLine();
                        builder.AppendLine($"|{string.Join("|", Enum.GetNames(typeof(DayOfWeek)).Select(d => $" {d.Substring(0, 3)} "))}|" );
                        builder.Append('-', dashLine);
                        builder.AppendLine();
                        DayOfWeek dow = days.First().DayOfWeek;
                        
                        while (dow != 0)
                        {
                            builder.Append(' ', space);
                            dow--;
                        }
                        
                        bool first = true;
                        
                        foreach (var d in days)
                        {
                            if (!first && d.DayOfWeek == 0)
                            {
                                builder.AppendLine("|");
                                builder.Append('-', dashLine);
                                builder.AppendLine();
                            }
                        
                            builder.Append($"|{d.Day.ToString().PadLeft(space - 2)} ");
                            first = false;
                        }
                        
                        builder.AppendLine("|");
                        builder.Append('-', dashLine);
                        builder.AppendLine();
                        

                        }

                        With the following output:

                        January

                        | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |

                                                  |   1 |   2 |
                        

                        | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |

                        | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |

                        | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |

                        | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |

                        | 31 |

                        February

                        | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |

                          |   1 |   2 |   3 |   4 |   5 |   6 |
                        

                        | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |

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                        Richard Deeming
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                        Unfortunately, that still assumes the first day of the week is Sunday. :)


                        "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

                        "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer

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                        • Richard DeemingR Richard Deeming

                          Now make it work for cultures whose week doesn't start on Sunday. ;P


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                          Fernando Takeshi Sato
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                          The first thing that I thought as well...here in Poland, the week starts on Monday. Almost two years here and this still throws me off.

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                          • M Marc Clifton

                            Richard Deeming wrote:

                            Now make it work for cultures whose week doesn't start on Sunday.

                            I wonder if there are any cultures that don't have a 7 day week? Or even the concept of a week?

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                            For bonus points, on the management/sales side: - convince a culture with a different week size to adopt the 7 days week. - convince a culture without the concept of calendar to adopt a 10 days week calendar (or 5 day, for the impatient), and then apply previous step.

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                            • W W Balboos GHB

                              Richard Deeming wrote:

                              cultures whose week doesn't start on Sunday.

                              That's easy - NUKE 'EM !

                              Ravings en masse^

                              "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                              "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                              F Margueirat
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                              Slow down there Donald.

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                              • J Jorgen Andersson

                                Otherwise you could use Genesis 2.2 as a reference.

                                Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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                                Janes Diary
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                                Hold up, this is implying that we need to start working Saturdays, a six work-day week.

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                                  Slow down there Donald.

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                                  W Balboos GHB
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                                  Not at all - as a humanitarian, I prefer to make in quick and painless. . . . at least I won't feel a thing . . .

                                  Ravings en masse^

                                  "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                                  "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                                  • M Marc Clifton

                                    OK, reformatted to protect the guilty. Write a function in your favorite language to create a "day view" in an array for a month, like 11/2019. So for that month/year, the array should look like this, where the day numbers not in the month are null or undefined:

                                                             1    2
                                    3    4    5    6    7    8    9
                                    

                                    10 11 12 13 14 15 16
                                    17 18 19 20 21 22 23
                                    24 25 26 27 28 29 30

                                    My solution in C#, which uses an extension method:

                                    int?[] days = new int?[6 * 7];
                                    var dow = (int)new DateTime(2019, 11, 1).DayOfWeek;
                                    Enumerable.Range(1, DateTime.DaysInMonth(2019, 11)).ForEachWithIndex((idx, n) => days[dow + idx] = n);

                                    And the output function:

                                    days.ForEachWithIndex((idx, n) => Console.Write(((idx % 7 == 0) ? "\r\n" : "") + (n?.ToString()?.PadLeft(5) ?? " ")));

                                    Which of course generates a leading CRLF, but oh well, that wasn't specifically indicated not to do so in the spec. :laugh: For the curious, this came up in a conversation with a coworker.

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                                    I'd go with a Bash script...

                                    #!/bin/sh

                                    cal

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