Re: function to convert degree (hour), minute, seconds string to integer

2006-07-27 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Machin wrote: You may wish to put more restrictions on the separators ... I would be suspicious of cases where dms[2] != dms[5]. What plausible separators are there besides :? Why allow alphabetics? If there's a use case for 23h59m59s, that would have to be handled

Re: function to convert degree (hour), minute, seconds string to integer

2006-07-27 Thread google0
John Machin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is a trivial function, and I've now spent more time searching for a surely-already-reinvented wheel than it would take to reinvent it again, but just in case... is there a published, open-source, function out there that takes a

Re: function to convert degree (hour), minute, seconds string to integer

2006-07-27 Thread John Machin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Machin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is a trivial function, and I've now spent more time searching for a surely-already-reinvented wheel than it would take to reinvent it again, but just in case... is there a published, open-source,

Re: function to convert degree (hour), minute, seconds string to integer

2006-07-27 Thread Paul McGuire
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I know this is a trivial function, and I've now spent more time searching for a surely-already-reinvented wheel than it would take to reinvent it again, but just in case... is there a published, open-source, function out there that

function to convert degree (hour), minute, seconds string to integer

2006-07-26 Thread google0
I know this is a trivial function, and I've now spent more time searching for a surely-already-reinvented wheel than it would take to reinvent it again, but just in case... is there a published, open-source, function out there that takes a string in the form of hh:mm:ss (where hh is 00-23, mm is

Re: function to convert degree (hour), minute, seconds string to integer

2006-07-26 Thread John Machin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is a trivial function, and I've now spent more time searching for a surely-already-reinvented wheel than it would take to reinvent it again, but just in case... is there a published, open-source, function out there that takes a string in the form of

Re: function to convert degree (hour), minute, seconds string to integer

2006-07-26 Thread John McMonagle
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 20:18 -0700, John Machin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is a trivial function, and I've now spent more time searching for a surely-already-reinvented wheel than it would take to reinvent it again, but just in case... is there a published, open-source,