In the same vein as my previous post about lack of function acting as the
"opposite" of strftime(),
I'm wondering if it's not time to have a scanf() function as the opposite
of printf().
In the olden days, SQLite didn't have table-valued eponymous-vtable
"functions", so there
was a technical reaon for having no scanf(). But nowadays, nothing prevents
it, and it would
be quite useful. Unless such vtable-functions need to have a fixed number
of returned columns?
To come back on that same text duration example, I thinking of something
like this:
create table vs (id number, elapsed text);
select vs.id, vs.elapsed, f."$1"*(60*60)+f."$2"*60+f."$3"+(f."$4"/100.0) as
sec
from vs, scanf('%d:%d:%d.%d', elapsed) as f
or perhaps if one could "name" the returned "tuple"
create table vs (id number, elapsed text);
select vs.id, vs.elapsed, f.hh*(60*60)+f.mm*60+f.ss+(f.cs/100.0) as sec
from vs, scanf('%d:%d:%d.%d', elapsed, 'hh', 'mm', 'ss', 'cs') as f
If as I fear, vtables need a "fixed" structure (columns and names),
the only solution would be to return an array-type (a-la PostgreSQL),
and/or have a small "protocol" to unpack elements from a tuple-like value.
That's possible and efficient thanks to type/subtype and/or pointer types.
Thoughts? --DD
PS: Of course, in my use case, a more specialized strptime() [1] would be
better IMHO.
It's just that it made me think about printf/scanf, thus this post.
[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/strptime.html
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