On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:41:33 -0500, Michal Lijowski wrote:
Is the only way to initialize date and ptime using strings like date d(from_simple_string(s));
NOT stringstreams
stringstream ss("2004-Jan-1"); date; ss >> d;
Michal
Using boost 1.33 you can use either method. If you use the stringstream method, you do not have to link with the library. The to_*_string & from_*_string functions require linking. In the following example, the date will first be initialized to not_a_date_time, and then set to 2004-Jan-01. date d; // d == not_a_date_time std::stringstream ss("2004-Jan-01"); ss >> d; // d == 2004-Jan-01 Also note, the default format for streaming in dates it "%Y-%b-%d". The %d flag requires two digits, so "2004-Jan-1" will not parse correctly and leave it set to not_a_date_time. It is possible to "turn-on" exceptions to catch these kinds of errors. See: http://tinyurl.com/8qzu4 for details. Bart