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So, having quite successfully derailed the previous attempt, lets try
again.
I want
use POSIX qw( strptime );
to work. I further want it to have actually-useful semantics, which as
demonstrated POSIX::strptime::strptime and Time::Piece::strptime both
lack. Ideally I'd prefer the former of these two semantics, as to most
closely match the POSIX/C API, but given this was such a point of
argument last time, I'd be happy to accept either of these in Perl:
my @time = localtime;
strptime $str, $fmt, \@time
my @time = strptime $str, $fmt, localtime;
Can we have a little consensus these?
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Furthermore, I don't think we got to the bottom of how to handle partial
parsing. E.g. I'd like somehow to get the number "10" out of this code:
strptime "2011-08-30 and here is more of the string", "%Y-%m-%d"
(10 because the space after 30 is the 10th position, so I'd like to
continue parsing from here).
Additionally it'd be lovely if I could parse the following by simply
knowing the number 12 rather than applying a substr operation first:
strptime substr("The date is 2011-08-30", 12), "%Y-%m-%d"
I posit both can be done with (ab)use of pos().
Opinions?
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