Re: Are the formats in DateTime::Format::Strptime extensible?

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 04:43:32PM -0500, David McMath wrote:
> A while back, I needed to some routines to parse timestamps so I
> started using DateTime::Format::Strptime.  The times were uniformly
> formatted like "2012-03-13T07:43:07-07:00".  That /almost/ matched
> the pattern "%FT%T%z" but I couldn't figure out how to force the
> match.  So I ended up taking a shortcut and removing the final ":"
> before processing.
> 
> Now I want to recycle the code and handle a few more formats and I'd
> /really/ like it to be the case that I don't have to do any
> manipulations of the strings before parsing; I'd much rather just
> have the caller specify what the proper format is and go from there.

You might take a look at DateTime::Format::Builder.

-kolibrie

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