Dear List,
A while back, I needed to some routines to parse timestamps so I started
using DateTime::Format::Strptime. The times were uniformly formatted
like "2012-03-13T07:43:07-07:00". That /almost/ matched the pattern
"%FT%T%z" but I couldn't figure out how to force the match. So I ended
up taking a shortcut and removing the final ":" before processing.
Now I want to recycle the code and handle a few more formats and I'd
/really/ like it to be the case that I don't have to do any
manipulations of the strings before parsing; I'd much rather just have
the caller specify what the proper format is and go from there.
Any advice is appreciated,
dave
