Re: [Boost-users] date formatting problem

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] date formatting problem
From: Jeff Garland (azswdude_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-01 08:16:21

Sergey Skorokhodov wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Sergey -

There are 2 facets -- one for input and one for output, so your problem is 
easily solved.  See

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_37_0/doc/html/date_time/date_time_io.html#date_time.date_input_facet

> I'm trying to read dates in "%d%m%Y" (DDMMYYYY). Unfortunately, it
> doesn't work. Here is the code:
> 
...snip...

> int main()
> {
>     try {
>         date dt( not_a_date_time );
> 
>         date_facet* facet(new date_facet("%d%m%Y"));
           ^^^^^^^^^^            ^^^^^^^^^^
           date_input_facet      date_input_facet

Jeff