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Re: How to parse unpredictable date strings [WAS: Two digit dates with NSDateFormatter]

Subject: Re: How to parse unpredictable date strings [WAS: Two digit dates with NSDateFormatter]
From: Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:30:07 -0600


On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:32 AM, Matthew Lindfield Seager wrote:

Which makes me now ask, how does everyone else parse unpredictable user input? Do I just try one format after another until I get a non-null date (and hope the interpreted date was what the user meant) or do I go back to the "not recommended" natural language formatting?

Use a 10.0-style date formatter. They're much better at parsing user- generated date strings than the newer 10.4-style formatters in my experience.

Nick Zitzmann
<http://www.chronosnet.com/>

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