Gregory J. Sharp wrote:
I'm trying to use the date_time/ptime module to parse strings.
Platform: MacOS X 10.4.7 on Intel Compiler: gcc 4.0.1
I have three potential bugs, so far. Perhaps I'm unreasonable in hoping that the following strings should be acceptable to time_from_string.
1. time_from_string( "2006-12-06" ) != time_from_string( "2006-12-06 00:00:00" ) 2. time_from_string( "2006/12/06" ) throws an exception (probably related to 1) even though time_from_string( "2006,12,06" ) doesn't throw. 3. time_from_string( "2006-12-06 " ) throws an exception because it passes a null string to str_from_delimited_time_duration(), which tries to read the first character of the string, even though there isn't one.
I think 1 & 2 are probably caused by parse_delimited_time() doing a split on ' ' and getting nothing to pass to parse_delimited_time_duration().
The main problem is that the time_from_string function is expecting a complete time (eg: 2006-12-26 00:00:00), not just a date. I believe all of these will parse correctly if you do this: using namespace boost::gregorian; date d = from_string("2006-12-06"); which can trivially be turned into a ptime if that's what you need. Jeff