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