| Subject: | Please provide strptime $str, $fmt, \@time |
The original C API for strptime passes in a (mutable) struct tm_time,
for strptime(3) to modify. It doesn't touch fields that aren't set by
the format string. This lets you easily parse time and date from two
different strings using two different formats.
It would be useful to put this in POSIX::strptime too; so we could
my @time;
strptime $datestamp, '%Y-%m-%d', \@time;
strptime $timestamp, '%H:%M:%S', \@time;
As it is currently, merging two separate lists is slightly more awkward
my @time = ( strptime $timestamp '%H:%M:%S' )[0,1,2],
( strptime $datestamp, '%Y-%m-%d' )[3,4,5];
It also currently leads to embarrassing bugs:
say strftime '%b', strptime "Feb", '%b'
=> Jan
This comes from the fact that strptime yielded a bunch of undefs in all
the other positions (OK), which strftime treats as 0; normalising 0th
Feb into 31st Jan.
Nicer would be if we could
my @t = (0,0,0,1,0,0); strptime "Feb", '%b', \@t; say strftime '%b', @t
=> Feb
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Paul Evans