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 <z...@mac.com> 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 <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On Nov 23, 2015, at 8:00 AM, Sandor Szatmari <admin.szatmari....@gmail.com> >>> 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 <mehg...@icloud.com >>>> <mailto:mehg...@icloud.com>> 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. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> >>>> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com >>>> <mailto:Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com>) >>>> >>>> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >>>> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >>>> <http://lists.apple.com/> >>>> >>>> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >>>> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/admin.szatmari.net%40gmail.com >>>> >>>> <https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/admin.szatmari.net%40gmail.com> >>>> >>>> This email sent to admin.szatmari....@gmail.com >>>> <mailto:admin.szatmari....@gmail.com> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >> >> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >> >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/zav%40mac.com >> >> This email sent to z...@mac.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
