Cool. Hopefully it’ll be in the next release, so keep adding bug reports. I didn’t want to write another regular expression to do something the class already does and get it wrong; if I do that, I might as well not even use NSDataDetector. In case you’re curious, Xcode, while debugging some runtime environments, will give you the info that’s really useful for such result objects. — Gary
> On Feb 13, 2016, at 1:18 PM, Alex Kac <a...@fanaticsoftware.com> wrote: > > We had the same issue and what we do is we look at the data detector match > string, determine if its date or time only using several techniques including > a regex…and go from there. Its not perfect, but it works relatively well. > > We do have a radar on the need to know if it found a date or date/time. > Ideally I’d like to get NSDateComponents back from the data detector so we > know what was found. > >> On Feb 13, 2016, at 1:16 PM, Gary L. Wade <garyw...@desisoftsystems.com> >> wrote: >> >> For dates, you can try using NSDataDetector, but I’ve found recently that it >> doesn’t work well if you only have a date or a time, only if you have both; >> it adds a placeholder value in those cases and doesn’t report that you only >> have one or the other. In the case for RSS feeds, though, you shouldn’t >> have that issue unless you’re using it on content, but keep that in mind. >> >> And, if anyone else finds the same need from NSDataDetector as me, please >> join me in writing a bug requesting this to be fixed in the next OSes and >> documented how we can make some use of NSDataDetector in the current and >> prior versions (I have personally figured this out already, but it’s fragile >> and not the best or supported practice). Note that my bug has already been >> duplicated, probably from my initial tech support incident, and this helps >> get it prioritized higher. >> — > > > Alex Kac - El capitán > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
