* John Siracusa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [14 Jul 2003 01:53]: [...] > See above. It's like 4 or 5 regexes for > DateTime::Format::Simple. I know, because I have a > DateTime wrapper that parses these formats, it it covers > about *99.9%* of the date strings I encounter, including > user input in web forms and such.
Sounds much like how I use DateTime::Format::HTTP. It's a wrapper around HTTP::Date which has 4 or 5 regexen to parse quite a few formats. Remember: part of the point of having the various format modules is that you can pick'n'mix. You could conceivably wrap a number of them in Builder to make your own parser that recognises the sorts of dates you come across. I mostly come across HTTP, W3CDTF and RFC2822 dates so I'm all set =) However, I'm interested in seeing your regexen to see if you parse anything that might be of use to me. Would you like to share? cheers, -- Iain. <http://iain.truskett.id.au/>
