On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 11:35:06 PM UTC-4 Ben wrote: > We're making a log processing program that needs to parse times from the > prefix of a larger string, in this case in a log line such as: > > 2006-01-02 15:04:05 INFO this is a log message > > We need to parse the "2006-01-02 15:04:05" part as a timestamp. > Unfortunately, time.Parse always returns an error if there's extra text > after the timestamp. > > If the timestamp were in a fixed format (like the one above) we could just > hard-code it to grab the first two fields, or even the first N characters. > However, in our case the format of the timestamp is user-controlled, so > we're planning to let the user specify a custom time.Parse layout for their > logs. > > Ben > > Ben, How does the user control the format of the timestamp? How do you get the time.Parse layout?
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