How to extract the year into a variable from a full date?

Question

ruby

I get a date from the database in this form 2019-07-10 00:18:50 +0300,, how can I save only the year in a variable using only pure Ruby?
Does this require regular expressions?

Answer 1

no Time class or regular is needed - just take the first 4 characters of the string.

Answer 2

Ruby has a special Time class
. Just call time = Time.parse("2019-07-10 00:18:50 +0300")
You can already extract anything from the time variable, for example, time.year