Bug #96265 for Date-Extract: Return multiple formats

Thu Jun 05 20:54:53 2014 sharyanto [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

Return multiple formats

This is just a note. I don't have a real-world need for this yet. One might need to extract DateTime objects as well as verbatim date strings out of some text. An option (perhaps the "format" argument being an array or a comma-separated string) can be provided to let one extract them in a single pass.

Thu Jun 05 22:50:03 2014 sharyanto [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Thu Jun 05 20:54:53 2014, SHARYANTO wrote: Show quoted text

> This is just a note. I don't have a real-world need for this yet. > > One might need to extract DateTime objects as well as verbatim date > strings out of some text. An option (perhaps the "format" argument > being an array or a comma-separated string) can be provided to let one > extract them in a single pass.

I just implemented a new format 'combined' which will return each item as hash. The hash will contain 'verbatim', 'pos' (position of date string in text), as well as 'DateTime' (DateTime objects). https://github.com/sharyanto/operl-Date-Extract/commit/f46c085dce432d6d9925155e0acba263e3567230 Please tell me what you guys think of it and whether it should be released. Regards, Steven

Thu Jun 05 22:50:04 2014 sharyanto [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Jun 06 12:57:31 2014 rt.cpan [...] sartak.org - Correspondence added

If you don't have a real world use case for it, it's probably better to just not include it for now. If and when we do want to include it, I'd certainly lean toward format accepting an array of formats both in the interest of flexibility and self-documentation. Thanks, Shawn