Seems to me that "2003" isn't a datetime, nor is "2003-05-01", both are spans.
2003 = '2003-01-01 00:00:00.0' - '2004-01-01 00:00:00.0'
Maybe there's something that can be done with DT:Incomplete given that change
in perspective?
Maybe DT:F:Strptime could return a DT:Incomplete as an 'error' option.
No solutions, just thoughts.
Cheers!
Rick Measham
On 24/02/2011, at 17:59, Philip Kime <philk...@kime.org.uk> wrote:
> Yes, that would be fine and I could use DateTime::Incomplete to get
> what I want but unfortunately what I need is the parsing so I don't
> have to parse it all myself (which is what I'm currently doing). The
> strings aren't that simple I'm afraid, that was just a minimal
> example. In fact, the strings are so irregular in one app data source
> driver that I really need to use DataTime::Format::Natural ...
>
> PK
>
> On 24 February 2011 01:34, Karen Etheridge <p...@froods.org> wrote:
>> 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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