On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 09:23:08PM +0100, Philip Kime wrote:
> All I really want is to be able to say:
>
> $dt = DateTime::Format::Somemodule->new('2008');
>
> and have $dt->month and $dt->day return undef instead of "1" otherwise I
> can't distinguish from:
>
> $dt = DateTime::Format::Somemodule->new('2008-01-01');
>
> Even DateTime::Format::ISO8601 doesn't do this even though "2008" is a valid
> ISO8601 date.
If your strings really are this simple, could you not simply do $dt =
DateTime->new(year => 2008); ? The DateTime::Format::* modules are simply
string parsers which call DateTime->new with various arguments -- there is
no reason why you can't call the constructor yourself.
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