The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
modid: Time::Parse
DSLIP: idpfp
description: Easy date/time parsing for fixed input fmts
userid: ROODE (Eric J. Roode)
chapterid: 6 (Data_Type_Utilities)
communities:
comp.lang.perl.modules, RPI lily
similar:
Date::Parse, Time::ParseDate, Date::Manip
rationale:
The existing date/time parsing modules are very big hammers which
are probably overkill for many parsing needs. They're great if you
have no clue what the input format will be (for example, something
typed by a user); they attempt to parse a huge range of possible
input formats.
However, for most automated processing of known file formats, you
don't want a module to *guess* at the date format; you want to TELL
it that the month will be here, the day there, etc.
I propose a module which allows a programmer to specify a time/date
format template, using the same format codes as my Time::Format
module, and which parses a string using exactly that template.
Possibly the user would also be able to specify the template using
stftime's formatting codes.
I suspect this would be faster and more robust than the Do-It-All
parsing modules. I plan to start development; in the meantime, I
would like to reserve the currently-unused Time::Parse namespace.
Thanks.
enteredby: ROODE (Eric J. Roode)
enteredon: Thu Jul 10 12:12:51 2003 GMT
The resulting entry would be:
Time::
::Parse idpfp Easy date/time parsing for fixed input fmts ROODE
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