std.datetime: easy way to parse 24/Jun/2020?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

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