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Ruby program to get the current month name in 3 characters using strftime() method

Ruby Example: Write a program to get the current month name in 3 characters using strftime() method.
Submitted by Nidhi, on February 04, 2022

Problem Solution:

In this program, we will get the current month name in 3 characters using the strftime() method of Time class and print the result.

Program/Source Code:

The source code to get the current month name in 3 characters using the strftime() method is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to get the current month name 
# in 3 characters using strftime() method

time = Time.new();
MonthName = time.strftime("%b");

print "Current Month name is: ",MonthName;

Output:

Current Month name is: Feb

Explanation:

In the above program, we created the object of Time class. Then we got the current month name in 3 characters using the strftime() method with "%b" as an argument and printed the result.

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