Re: Date String Parsing

it seems silly to use a module if I am having to still do corner cases by hand

IMHO, in this case, it doesn't seem so silly. Date parsing is a big ugly problem, and Date::Manip does remarkably well, considering. And if you could turn your corner-case fixes into patches to the module, that would be even better.

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Re^2: Date String Parsing by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Nov 27, 2007 at 16:55 UTC
jdporter, I agree with you completely in principle. I don't have time to decipher the Date::Manip code in order to write patches with working tests. This is primarily due to the fact that I am going to be a Dad again real soon now :-) In addition to not having time to fully document the parsing routine and write patches for more formats, I certainly don't have time to create new features. One of the failures of Date::Manip is to control the behavior when more than one outcome is possible. Cheers - L~R	[reply]

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Re^2: Date String Parsing
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Nov 27, 2007 at 16:55 UTC

jdporter

Date::Manip

In addition to not having time to fully document the parsing routine and write patches for more formats, I certainly don't have time to create new features. One of the failures of Date::Manip is to control the behavior when more than one outcome is possible.

Cheers - L~R

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