Re: dateFromString won't accept this string:
Re: dateFromString won't accept this string:
- Subject: Re: dateFromString won't accept this string:
- From: Sandor Szatmari <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:32:50 -0500
Alex,
What spec are you referring to? Link? I was playing around with NSDataDetector for pulling dates out of strings in XML dumps of excel files for an internal tool I was writing. NSDataDetectors seemed powerful, but failed when the dates weren't totally well formed (Tested on 10.8.5, SDK 10.8); the dates were still totally recognizable by humans, just missing some whitespace here or there. It did handle differently formatted dates very well though. I ended up using regular expressions to 'parse' the dates as there was just one format I was dealing with and the issue was just the missing whitespace. Maybe I didn't know how to configure it to be more flexible or tolerant of the format deviations?
Sandor
On Nov 23, 2015, at 9:33 AM, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
> Have you looked into The spec for date formatting?
>
> It is seriously helpful. It's some ISO document.
>
> Specify the format at which the date is coming in and it should convert.
>
> I will send you my crappy routines for this for iOS.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Nov 23, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Alex Hall <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Nov 23, 2015, at 8:00 AM, Sandor Szatmari <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> Alex,
>>>
>>> Have you tried looking at NSDataDetector. http://nshipster.com/nsdatadetector/ <http://nshipster.com/nsdatadetector/>
>> Thanks for the suggestion. I don't think that would apply here, though; I have some JSON data that includes a date as a string. I need to convert that to an NSDate object so I can then display it however the user wants, or compare it to now, and such. However, that's a really useful page (I love NSHipster) and I'll save it for another project I'm thinking about where data detectors will be useful.
>>>
>>> Sandor
>>>
>>>> On Nov 22, 2015, at 16:12, Alex Hall <email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey list,
>>>> I’m using NSDateFormatter.dateFromString() to make a date from the date string in a tweet. However, it seems to be returning nil, and I’m not sure why. Is there something else I have to do, like tell the formatter what order to expect components to be in? The string is something like:
>>>>
>>>> "Sun Nov 22 21:00:39 +0000 2015”
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any suggestions anyone has.
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