Re: NSFormatter troubles (was: NSScanner troubles)
Re: NSFormatter troubles (was: NSScanner troubles)
- Subject: Re: NSFormatter troubles (was: NSScanner troubles)
- From: WT <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 21:52:40 -0200
On Dec 11, 2010, at 9:38 PM, Stephen J. Butler wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 5:14 PM, WT <email@hidden> wrote:
>> All results are correct, except for the last two. "123.456,78" should result in 123456.78 and 23/04/2010 should result in the appropriate NSDate object for April 23, 2010.
>>
>> The locale is NOT being ignored, since 12,34 and 123456,78 are parsed correctly. Yet, the group separator causes trouble and dates aren't being parsed correctly.
>
> Also, -[NSDateFormatter setDateStyle:]. Try NSDateFormatterShortStyle.
> I got that from reading the Reminder example linked in the docs.
Ok, I think I'm misunderstanding something fundamental here.
My understanding is that setting a style is useful when you want to output a string from a given number or date, not when you want to read in a number or date from an input string. How would I know ahead of time what style the strings presented to me are going to be using? It doesn't make sense to me that I need to set the style to read the data.
So, is my understanding here flawed?_______________________________________________
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