On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Ben Bennett wrote:
> All true... but my benchmarking as I wrote my ISO8601 showed that the
> speed gained by pre-filtering by length to reduce the number of
> regexps that need to be tried is substantial.
You can mix length with no-length specrefs.
> The other thing that my ISO8601 parser does is (optionally) return the
> format specification and pieces of the time string (because it is not
> always possible to cleanly map an ISO8601 string into a DT, but the
> module tries its best). Is there a way to easily do that with Builder
> that I haven't spotted yet?
Theres only 6 strings that can match either dates or time.
hhmmss
hhmm
hh
-mmss
-mm
--ss
-J
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