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5 <!-- Copyright (c) 2001-2004 CrystalClear Software, Inc.
6 Subject to the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
7 (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
10 <section id=
"date_time.examples.dates_as_strings">
11 <title>Dates as Strings
</title>
14 Various parsing and output of strings.
19 /* The following is a simple example that shows conversion of dates
20 * to and from a std::string.
25 * Tuesday October
9,
2001
26 * An expected exception is next:
27 * Exception: Month number is out of range
1.
.12
30 #include
"boost/date_time/gregorian/gregorian.hpp"
38 using namespace boost::gregorian;
41 // The following date is in ISO
8601 extended format (CCYY-MM-DD)
42 std::string s(
"2001-10-9"); //
2001-October-
09
43 date d(from_simple_string(s));
44 std::cout << to_simple_string(d) << std::endl;
46 //Read ISO Standard(CCYYMMDD) and output ISO Extended
47 std::string ud(
"20011009"); //
2001-Oct-
09
48 date d1(from_undelimited_string(ud));
49 std::cout << to_iso_extended_string(d1) << std::endl;
51 //Output the parts of the date - Tuesday October
9,
2001
52 date::ymd_type ymd = d1.year_month_day();
53 greg_weekday wd = d1.day_of_week();
54 std::cout << wd.as_long_string() <<
" "
55 << ymd.month.as_long_string() <<
" "
56 << ymd.day <<
", " << ymd.year
59 //Let's send in month
25 by accident and create an exception
60 std::string bad_date(
"20012509"); //
2001-??-
09
61 std::cout <<
"An expected exception is next: " << std::endl;
62 date wont_construct(from_undelimited_string(bad_date));
63 //use wont_construct so compiler doesn't complain, but you wont get here!
64 std::cout <<
"oh oh, you shouldn't reach this line: "
65 << to_iso_string(wont_construct) << std::endl;
67 catch(std::exception& e) {
68 std::cout <<
" Exception: " << e.what() << std::endl;