Why not simply pick off the month, day, year characters then turn them into
ints and set the members of the DateTimeType struct yourself? Seems the
easiest way to me.
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> Krugler
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> Subject: Re: Simple (?) question about dates and strings
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> At 12:00am -0700 00-09-29, Palm Developer Forum digest wrote:
> >Subject: Simple (?) question about dates and strings
> >From: "wheeler wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:57:49 -0400
> >X-Message-Number: 100
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> >Have I missed something? I need to convert a CharPtr (eg.
> "09/28/00") to a
> >DateTimeType. Is there a function that does this? I see the reverse is
> >available to create a string based on a date. Thanks.
>
> Nope, you're on your own. Note that Palm OS software typically uses
> the SelectDay() routine, which avoids having to parse manually
> entered date strings.
>
> -- Ken
>
> Ken Krugler
> TransPac Software, Inc.
> <http://www.transpac.com>
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