Re: [Boost-users] [date_time] How to create a date fromstringwithspecific format?

From: Christian Henning (chhenning_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-22 11:09:53

Thank you very much. I was not paying to attention. My fault.

For the records, here is a sample that works:

   date_input_facet* pMyFacet = new date_input_facet( "%m-%d-%Y" );

   std::istringstream oo;
   oo.imbue( std::locale(oo.getloc(), pMyFacet ));
   oo.str( "11-03-2006" );

   date myDate;

   try
   {
      oo >> myDate;

      date::ymd_type ymd = myDate.year_month_day();

      std::cout << myDate;
   }
   catch( std::out_of_range oEx )
   {
      std::cout << "Error: " << oEx.what() << std::endl;
   }

Unfortunately a string like "11-3-1997" wont work since the day is
just a single digit. Is that something the date_time lib will be able
to understand in the future?

Thanks,
Christian