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Ruby method to get seconds from colon-separated time string (See related posts)

// converts colon-separated time to seconds
// "01:02:03" => 3723

def colon_separated_to_i(str)

  time_arr = []
  time_arr = str.split(":").reverse
  sec = 0
  secs = [1, 60, 60*60, 60*60*24]

  time_arr.size.times do {|i|
    sec += secs[i].to_i * time_arr[i].to_i
  end
  sec
end
to ruby time colon-separated by kelyar on Wed Jan 11 20:05:37 -0500 2006

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