Hi Rick,
>
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 12:29:33 -0800 , Hill, Ronald wrote
> > my $dt = DateTime::Format::UGAnswer->parse_date('Jan 26 2001');
> >
> > print $dt->mdy;
> >
> > I have tried messing with this line in the package
> > strptime => '%B%N%d%N%Y' in order to get it to work but nogo
>
> %N is nanoseconds. You might want to look at %n, except that
Ops!!, yep that works :)
> it's not backwards
> compatible in that $dt->strptime('%B%N%d%N%Y'') will return newlines:
> Jan
> 26
> 2001
>
> If you know that the string is 10 characters long, then I'd
> just used vanila spaces in your
> pattern:
> '%B %d %Y'
That is what I tried and it works. However,
I did take out the length requriment so I can
have:
$dt = DateTime::Format::UGAnswer->parse_date('January 26 2001');
as well. Seems to work :)
Thanks
Ron Hill
