in 'free' format, i.e. allow them to be specified in any of possible ways.
These functions will usually be used to parse the (interactive) user input
which is not bound to be in any predefined format. As an example,
- ParseDateTime() can parse the strings such as "tomorrow", "March first" and
+ ParseDate() can parse the strings such as "tomorrow", "March first" and
even "next Sunday".
Finally notice that each of the parsing functions is available in several
/**
This function is like ParseDateTime(), but it only allows the date to
- be specified. It is thus less flexible then ParseDateTime(), but also
- has less chances to misinterpret the user input.
+ be specified.
- @return @NULL if the conversion failed, otherwise return the pointer
- to the character which stopped the scan.
+ It is thus less flexible then ParseDateTime(), but also has less
+ chances to misinterpret the user input.
- @see Format()
- */
- const char* ParseDate(const wxString& date,
- wxString::const_iterator* end = NULL);
+ See ParseFormat() for the description of function parameters and return
+ value.
- /**
- @overload
- */
- const char* ParseDate(const char* date);
-
- /**
- @overload
+ @see Format()
*/
- const wchar_t* ParseDate(const wchar_t* date);
+ bool ParseDate(const wxString& date, wxString::const_iterator *end);
/**
Parses the string @a datetime containing the date and time in free
- format. This function tries as hard as it can to interpret the given
- string as date and time. Unlike ParseRfc822Date(), it will accept
- anything that may be accepted and will only reject strings which can
- not be parsed in any way at all.
+ format.
- @return @NULL if the conversion failed, otherwise return the pointer
- to the character which stopped the scan.
- */
- const char* ParseDateTime(const wxString& datetime,
- wxString::const_iterator* end = NULL);
-
- /**
- @overload
- */
- const char* ParseDateTime(const char* datetime);
+ This function tries as hard as it can to interpret the given string as
+ date and time. Unlike ParseRfc822Date(), it will accept anything that
+ may be accepted and will only reject strings which can not be parsed in
+ any way at all. Notice that the function will fail if either date or
+ time part is present but not both, use ParseDate() or ParseTime() to
+ parse strings containing just the date or time component.
- /**
- @overload
+ See ParseFormat() for the description of function parameters and return
+ value.
*/
- const wchar_t* ParseDateTime(const wchar_t* datetime);
+ bool ParseDateTime(const wxString& datetime, wxString::const_iterator *end);
/**
This function parses the string @a date according to the given
@a dateDef. If it is not specified, Today() is used as the default
date.
- @return @NULL if the conversion failed, otherwise return the pointer
- to the character which stopped the scan.
+ Example of using this function:
+ @code
+ wxDateTime dt;
+ wxString str = "...";
+ wxString::const_iterator end;
+ if ( !dt.ParseFormat(str, "%Y-%m-%d", &end) )
+ ... parsing failed ...
+ else if ( end == str.end() )
+ ... entire string parsed ...
+ else
+ ... wxString(end, str.end()) left over ...
+ @endcode
+
+ @param date
+ The string to be parsed.
+ @param format
+ strptime()-like format string.
+ @param dateDef
+ Used to fill in the date components not specified in the @a date
+ string.
+ @param end
+ Will be filled with the iterator pointing to the location where the
+ parsing stopped if the function returns @true. If the entire string
+ was consumed, it is set to @c date.end(). Notice that this argument
+ must be non-@NULL.
+ @return
+ @true if at least part of the string was parsed successfully,
+ @false otherwise.
@see Format()
*/
- const char* ParseFormat(const wxString& date,
- const wxString& format = wxDefaultDateTimeFormat,
- const wxDateTime& dateDef = wxDefaultDateTime,
- wxString::const_iterator* end = NULL);
+ bool ParseFormat(const wxString& date,
+ const wxString& format,
+ const wxDateTime& dateDef,
+ wxString::const_iterator *end);
/**
@overload
*/
- const char* ParseFormat(const char* date,
- const wxString& format = wxDefaultDateTimeFormat,
- const wxDateTime& dateDef = wxDefaultDateTime);
+ bool ParseFormat(const wxString& date,
+ const wxString& format,
+ wxString::const_iterator *end);
/**
@overload
*/
- const wchar_t* ParseFormat(const wchar_t* date,
- const wxString& format = wxDefaultDateTimeFormat,
- const wxDateTime& dateDef = wxDefaultDateTime);
+ bool ParseFormat(const wxString& date, wxString::const_iterator *end);
/**
This function parses the string containing the date and time in ISO
string which is not RFC 822 compliant. If you need to parse date
formatted in more free ways, you should use ParseDateTime() or
ParseDate() instead.
- */
- const char* ParseRfc822Date(const wxString& date,
- wxString::const_iterator* end = NULL);
- /**
- @overload
- */
- const char* ParseRfc822Date(const char* date);
-
- /**
- @overload
+ See ParseFormat() for the description of function parameters and return
+ value.
*/
- const wchar_t* ParseRfc822Date(const wchar_t* date);
+ bool ParseRfc822Date(const wxString& date, wxString::const_iterator *end);
/**
This functions is like ParseDateTime(), but only allows the time to be
specified in the input string.
- @return @NULL if the conversion failed, otherwise return the pointer
- to the character which stopped the scan.
- */
- const char* ParseTime(const wxString& time,
- wxString::const_iterator* end = NULL);
-
- /**
- @overload
- */
- const char* ParseTime(const char* time);
-
- /**
- @overload
+ See ParseFormat() for the description of function parameters and return
+ value.
*/
- const wchar_t* ParseTime(const wchar_t* time);
+ bool ParseTime(const wxString& time, wxString::const_iterator *end);
//@}
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