Re: [Boost-users] ptime constructor

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-13 10:58:15

Miguel Lopes wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I have a small question about ptime class usage. I am currently working 
> on an old project that uses Boost library; unfortunately, when I build 
> and run the project executable some exceptions are thrown. I found out 
> that some parts of the project are trying to create ptime objects like 
> this:
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> *ptime(time_from_string(string(sz))) *
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> That line throws an exception, when sz is empty.
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> So my question is: Is there any version (Boost version) of ptime class 
> that accepts an empty string as argument? The problem is that I need to 

Not that I can remember...but memory is fragile.

> investigate which version of Boost, is being really used in the project 
> makefile and with all versions of Boost that line throws the exception. 
> On the other hand I have a precompiled binary of the project, and under 
> the same data input conditions, it works perfectly, that is, even with 
> empty dates no exceptions are thrown.

It's also possible that they made some modification of the source to make it 
return not-a-date-time or something.

HTH,

Jeff