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Re: [bug-gawk] proposed new gawk time function strptime()
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [bug-gawk] proposed new gawk time function strptime() |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:42:19 +0300 |
> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 23:28:12 -0500
> From: Ed Morton <address@hidden>
>
> The proposed function is well defined, exists in other languages and so is
> well known, provides symmetry with an existing gawk function (strftime()),
> does not impact any other part of the language, I would imagine is about as
> easy as it can get to implement since it already exists in libraries, fits in
> like a missing puzzle piece to the existing set of gawk time functions, and
> the only impact to existing scripts would be if someone had their own
> function named strptime() defined.
Some old or non-Posix platforms will not have strptime in their
standard libraries, so we will need to import e.g. the gnulib
implementation.