Re: NSDateFormatter -- accepting different formats at runtime

FROM : Jens Alfke
DATE : Mon Jun 23 23:29:52 2008

On 23 Jun '08, at 2:24 PM, Daniel Richman wrote:

> I know it is possible to set how the date is formatted at compile 
> time via IB, but is there any way to accept multiple formats at 
> runtime?


The only real way to do this is to create a number of 
NSDateFormatters, each with a different format string, and try to 
parse your date string with each one in turn. (That's what Apple's RSS-
parsing frameworks had to do, to support all the 'creative' misuses of 
date formats in real-world news feeds.)

—Jens_______________________________________________

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