Re: [Boost-users] [date_time] extract date from string using a list of patterns

From: Roman Neuhauser (neuhauser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-27 21:09:30

# bgneal_at_[hidden] / 2006-06-27 15:38:06 -0500:
> > Thats why I was looking into it this way, I was hoping not to have to
> > create my own parser.  I'm actually kinda of surprised that there isn't
> > a open source natural language date string parser out there already.
> 
> GNU date is such a library. In PHP, there is the strtotime() function,
> which I believe uses GNU date C code to parse stuff like what you
> list. It accepts a bewildering variety of strings like "now", "last
> Monday", "10 September 2004", "10 Sep 2004", "+1 week 2 days 3
> seconds", etc. I can't find a GNU link for you though.

    http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_mono/coreutils.html#Date-input-formats

> But here is the man page for PHP's strtotime() for a starting point:
> 
> http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

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