gistfile1.rb

  define_field "Birthday (day/month/year)" do
    |child, value|
    if value == ""
      child.birthdate = nil;
    elsif value =~ /(\d+)\/(\d+)\/(\d+)/
      #15/12/1997 -- which needs to be reversed to 12/15/1997 in order to be imported
      child.birthdate = value.gsub(/(\d+)\/(\d+)\/(\d+)/) do | s | 
        year = $3;
        if year.length == 2
          if year[0..0] == 0
            year = "20" + year
          else
            year = "19" + year
          end
        end
        "#{$2}/#{$1}/#{year}" 
      end
    elsif (value =~ /(\d){4}/) == 0
      #1993 -- which needs to be expanded to 1/1/1993 in order to be imported  
      child.birthdate = "1/1/" + value
    elsif (value =~ /(\d*)-*(\w+)-(\d+)/)
      #May-93 -- which needs to be expanded into 1-May-93 in order to imported
      #28-Apr-00 -- which needs to be expanded to 28-Apr-2000 in order to be imported
      child.birthdate = value.gsub(/(\d*)-*(\w+)-(\d+)/) do | s | 
        day = $1
        if day == ''
          day = "1"
        end
        year = $3;
        if year.length == 2
          if year[0..0] == 0
            year = "20" + year
          else
            year = "19" + year          
          end
        end
        "#{day}-#{$2}-#{year}" 
      end
    else
      puts "Don't know how to parse birthdate of: " + value;
    end
    puts "Pased birthday of " + value + " as: " + child.birthdate.to_s
  end