On Thursday, 10 September 2020 at 15:20:54 UTC, John Chapman
wrote:
On Thursday, 10 September 2020 at 13:30:15 UTC, FreeSlave wrote:
Thanks. I tried this, but VarDateFromStr does not succeed for
me.
It turns out the shell embeds some control characters in the
string, specifically 8206 and 8207. So remove those before
passing it to VarDateFromStr.
auto temp = strRet.pOleStr[0 .. lstrlenW(strRet.pOleStr)]
.replace(cast(wchar)8206, "")
.replace(cast(wchar)8207, "");
DATE date;
VarDateFromStr((temp ~ '\0').ptr, LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, 0,
&date);
Thank you again for consulting. I thought these character are
part of the date format. This is all working now.
