* Rick Measham [14 Jul 2003 10:19]:
> At 8:01 PM -0400 13/7/03, Ben Bennett wrote:
[...]
> > I also returned additional items in array context, the
> > first was the DT object and the additional items
> > described what was parsed so if the person cared about
> > time only in some cases they could tell them apart from
> > the fully specified items.
> I like this idea .. we'd have something like:
> $hashref = hash_datetime($natural)
> %hash = hash_datetime($natural)
> (Any better suggestions than hash_datetime?)
%data = $class->extract_datetime( $datetime );
Which, I take it, parses $datetime and puts anything of note
in %data. So you'd get something like:
%data = qw(
hour 23 day_of_year 324 name_of_day Tuesday
parsing loose
);
Possibly with a datetime key with a DateTime object hanging
off it if appropriate?
Like that?
I think you'd need to have some standardised naming of keys
in there.
cheers,
--
Iain.
