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* Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> [2011-08-04 12:30]: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 01:17:19PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > > Heck, the Time::Piece `strptime` can be extended to cover all of the > > use cases you showed. Beyond setting `pos()` it would just need to > > allow calling `strptime` as an instance method, and use the values > > from the constructing object for the default values of unspecified > > fields. > > > > I.e. where you propose > > > > my @time = localtime; > > strptime( $str, '%H:%M:%S', \@time ); > > > > it would instead be > > > > Time::Piece->now->strptime( $str, '%H:%M:%S' ); > > > > Now isn’t *that* pretty. > > LGTM > > > The one option this doesn’t give you, compared to the above API, is > > handling elliptical datetimes. > > How do you mean elliptical? If by that you mean the two split partial > cases, that's still not hard: > > Time::Piece->now > ->strptime( "2011/Aug/4", '%Y/%b/%d' ) > ->strptime( "12:34:56", '%H:%M:%S' ) I meant that you cannot do the equivalent of passing an undef value into the proposed POSIX::strptime, because a Time::Piece objects can only ever represent a complete date, time or datetime.Thread Previous | Thread Next