On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 08:13:21PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> On 10 January 2017 at 17:48, frede...@ofb.net wrote:
> | Hi R Devel,
> |
> | I just ran into a corner case with 'strptime'. Recall that the "%OS"
> | conversion accepts fractional seconds:
> |
> | > strptime("17_35_14.01234.mp3","%H_%M_%OS.mp3")$sec
> | [1] 14.01234
> |
> | Unfortunately for my application it seems to be "greedy", in that it
> | tries to parse a decimal point which might belong to the rest of the
> | format:
> |
> | > strptime("17_35_14.mp3","%H_%M_%OS.mp3")
> | [1] NA
>
> Maybe just don't use the optional O:
>
> R> strptime("17_35_14.mp3","%H_%M_%S.mp3")$sec
> [1] 14
> R>
> R> strptime("17_35_14.mp3","%H_%M_%S.mp3")
> [1] "2017-01-10 17:35:14 CST"
> R>
For my application I wanted to be able to accept both formats,
"14.mp3" and "14.01234.mp3". Since "14" and "14.01234" both parse as
numbers, I thought "%OS" should accept both.
Yes, I can work around it fairly easily.
Frederick
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