Doesn't look bad (as far as pseudo-code goes, that is).

Personally and depending on what your final result of the conversion has to be, I would have converted the month's name/number to a number and not to the full name of the month. Incidentally you have written the month of 'May' in all caps!

It is probably easier to work with all data in numerical form, which is also the form expected/used by the built-in date functions.

One more comment: if you are careful in crafting your regexes, you can do the splitting right there in the regex by using capturing parentheses and $1 $2 $3. Perhaps you should also allow the user to input extra/spurious whitespace (allow for \s+ instead of \s)

CountZero

"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

In reply to Re: More Date Conversion Happiness, Part 2 by CountZero
in thread More Date Conversion Happiness, Part 2 by ctp

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