Re: [Boost-users] [date_time] is it possible to parse a string out from given patterns?

From: Simon Buchan (simon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-27 01:18:12

Jeff Garland wrote:
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> That said, I am concerned that the program crashed -- that doesn't sound like
> desireable behavior.  I suspect the reason has something to do with the fact
> that the string you are passing doesn't have any valid strings to parse --
> something I'm pretty sure we don't test.  Anyway, I'll put that on the todo
> list to add a test and better specify the behavior related to   completely
> invalid format strings.  It probably would be nice to have an exception in
> this case...
> 
> Jeff
> 
> Jeff
(yes, I heard you already :-)

This seems like a job for assert to me, unless you expect user-input to 
be used in the format string somehow?

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