• Andrei Alexandrescu (2/2) Jun 28 2020 The day and year obviously are easy, is there a way to easily parse the
• Stanislav Blinov (5/7) Jun 28 2020 There's [1] if you're willing to transform the input.
• Steven Schveighoffer (14/16) Jun 28 2020 std.datetime specifically does not deal with parsing all formats
• Walter Bright (3/5) Jun 28 2020 The old D1 std.datetime does it using compiler lexing techniques:
• Seb (3/5) Jun 28 2020 https://code.dlang.org/packages/dateparser

Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:

The day and year obviously are easy, is there a way to easily parse the 
month from English into number? Thanks!

Stanislav Blinov <stanislav.blinov gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 29 June 2020 at 00:42:17 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
 The day and year obviously are easy, is there a way to easily 
 parse the month from English into number? Thanks!

There's [1] if you're willing to transform the input.

[1] 
https://dlang.org/library/std/datetime/date/date.from_simple_string.html

Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy gmail.com> writes:

On 6/28/20 8:42 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
 The day and year obviously are easy, is there a way to easily parse the 
 month from English into number? Thanks!

std.datetime specifically does not deal with parsing all formats 
(generally, this is a HUGE amount of work).

It has 2 parsing formats (3 actually, if you can't the non-EXT and EXT 
ISO formats): 
https://dlang.org/phobos/std_datetime_date.html#.DateTime.fromSimpleString, 
https://dlang.org/phobos/std_datetime_date.html#.DateTime.fromISOExtString

Otherwise, you have to do it yourself.

Note that the 3-letter english name (not capitalized) might match the 
Month enum: https://dlang.org/phobos/std_datetime_date.html#Month, which 
means you could possibly parse it with formattedRead.

There are also dub packages, e.g.: 
https://code.dlang.org/packages/dateparser

-Steve

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 6/28/2020 5:42 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
 The day and year obviously are easy, is there a way to easily parse the month 
 from English into number? Thanks!

The old D1 std.datetime does it using compiler lexing techniques:

https://github.com/dlang/undeaD/blob/master/src/undead/dateparse.d

Seb <seb wilzba.ch> writes:

On Monday, 29 June 2020 at 00:42:17 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
 The day and year obviously are easy, is there a way to easily 
 parse the month from English into number? Thanks!

https://code.dlang.org/packages/dateparser