Re: How to do multiple trys

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. This is what I have used finally: (defn parse-date [date-str] (when-not (blank? date-str) (let [clean-date-str (trim date-str) parse-or-nil (fn [format] (try (.parse format clean-date-str)

How to do multiple trys

Hi, I am just starting to learn Clojure by writing a small library. I came across a situation in which I have to parse a String for getting a Date. Now the string can be in one of the three formats. So I wrote this functions to parse it: (def #^{:private true :tag SimpleDateFormat}

Re: How to do multiple trys

Hi, 2010/7/30 abhinav sarkar abhinav.sar...@gmail.com Hi, I am just starting to learn Clojure by writing a small library. I came across a situation in which I have to parse a String for getting a Date. Now the string can be in one of the three formats. So I wrote this functions to parse it:

Re: How to do multiple trys

parse-or-nil can be avoided by calling parse with an additional argument (ParsePosition. 0), in which case parse returns nil on failure. On Jul 30, 6:21 am, Laurent PETIT laurent.pe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 2010/7/30 abhinav sarkar abhinav.sar...@gmail.com Hi, I am just starting to

Re: How to do multiple trys

Untested, but maybe this: (def- parse-date [date-str] (when-not (blank? date-str) (let [date-str (trim date-str)] (take 1 (filter identity (map #(try (.parse % date-str) (catch ParseException e nil)) [full-date-format date-format-wo-tz