jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) (02/01/91)
Has anyone out there written a library that will parse dates in a variety of forms, without knowing which form it will be ahead of time? For example, the line may read DATE: YYMMDD or, it may be any of the following: MMDDYY MMDDYYYY YYYYMMDD DD/MM/YY DD/MM/YYYY MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YYYY MM-DD-YYYY MM-DD-YY DD Monthname-or-abbreviation YY etc. I'd hate to reinvent the wheel on this, but I'd like to have a general date parsing facility. My saving grace is I know the dates can't be spread across more than one line. thanks, jas -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey A. Sullivan | Senior Systems Programmer jas@venera.isi.edu | Information Sciences Institute jas@isi.edu | University of Southern California