Regexp::Common::time v0.01
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This is a Regexp::Common plugin that provides regular expressions for
parsing dates and times. It can handle most date formats, such as:
y/m/d m/d/y d/m/y
2005/04/02 4/2/2005 2/4/05
05.04.02 04.02.05 02.04.2005
2005 April 2 April 2, 2005 2 APR 05
05APRIL02 APR022005 02 April 2005
20050402 040205 02042005
It can also handle time formats like:
9:03:27pm
21:03:27
9:03 p.m.
21:03
9:03a
Furthermore, you can easily piece together time and date component
patterns (in the style of Time::Format or POSIX's strftime) to build
arbitrarily complex custom regexes that can parse just about any time
or date pattern imaginable.
DEVELOPMENT STATE
This is a brand new module. It has a decent test suite, but it has
not been extensively field-tested. So use it with caution.
If you find any bugs, or if any behavior of Regexp::Common::time
surprises you, I would be grateful if you could send me an email
message about it. Thanks.
INSTALLATION
To install this module, do the standard Perl module four-step:
perl Makefile.PL or perl Makefile.pl LIB='my/install/path'
make
make test
make install
DEPENDENCIES
This module requires this other modules and libraries:
Regexp::Common
POSIX
I18N::Langinfo (optional, but needed for internationalization)
Also, Time::Normalize is likely to be useful to you.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Eric J. Roode,
[email protected]
Copyright (c) 2005 by Eric J. Roode. All Rights Reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
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