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Doesn't look bad (as far as pseudo-code goes, that is).

Personally and depending on what your final result of the conversion has to be, I would have converted the month's name/number to a number and not to the full name of the month. Incidentally you have written the month of 'May' in all caps!

It is probably easier to work with all data in numerical form, which is also the form expected/used by the built-in date functions.

One more comment: if you are careful in crafting your regexes, you can do the splitting right there in the regex by using capturing parentheses and $1 $2 $3. Perhaps you should also allow the user to input extra/spurious whitespace (allow for \s+ instead of \s)

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Re: Re: More Date Conversion Happiness, Part 2
by ctp (Beadle) on Jan 11, 2004 at 18:28 UTC
    In this case the final result must be full month name...yea, I would have done the conversions differently had that not been the case.

    On the regexes, I've seen that done, but I'm new at this so I'm not gonna jump into that just yet (soon tho). Once I have this thing working in a way satisfactory to my instructor, I'll post it and ask everyone here how they'd do it and find out how I could have done it in 5 lines! :-D
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