StrftimeParser 0.1.1

StrftimeParser

StrftimeParser is a .NET Standard 2.0 library that allows you to work with C-style strftime string formats within .NET.

The project provides a main class called Strftime that exposes a static method Parse, which allows to convert a formatted string to a DateTime object

Usage

To use StrftimeParser in your .NET project, follow these simple steps:

1. Add the NuGet package StrftimeParser to your .NET project.

2. Import the StrftimeParser namespace in your code file.

3. Call the static method Parse of the Strftime class and pass a string in the C-style strftime format as a parameter, plus the format used.

4. Use the DateTime object returned by the Parse method to manipulate the formatted date.

Here an example of code:

using StrftimeParser;


string strftimeString = "2001-08-23 14:55:02";
string formatSpecifier = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S";

DateTime dateTime = Strftime.Parse(strftimeString, formatSpecifier);

// dateTime now contains the formatted date as a .NET DateTime object

How to Use a specified CultureInfo

To execute the parsing with a specific Culture, you can pass a CultureInfo instance to the Parse method:

DateTime dateTime = Strftime.Parse(strftimeString, formatSpecifier, CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("it-IT"));

// dateTime now contains the formatted date as a .NET DateTime object

Compatibility

At the moment, StrftimeParser supports these format specifiers:

• %a - Abbreviated weekday name *
• %A - Full weekday name *
• %b - Abbreviated month name *
• %B - Full month name *
• %d - Day of the month as a zero-padded number
• %D - Short MM/DD/YY date, equivalent to %m/%d/%y
• %e - Day of the month as a space-padded number
• %F - Short YYYY-MM-DD date, equivalent to %Y-%m-%d
• %c - Date and time representation
• %C - Year divided by 100 and truncated to integer (00-99)
• %I - Hour in 12h format (01-12)
• %p - AM or PM designation
• %H - Hour in 24h format (00-23)
• %j - Day of the year (001-366)
• %m - Month as a decimal number (01-12)
• %M - Minute (00-59)
• %n - New-line character ('\n')
• %t - Horizontal-tab character ('\t')
• %S - Second (00-61)
• %T - ISO 8601 time format (HH:MM:SS), equivalent to %H:%M:%S
• %u - ISO 8601 weekday as number with Monday as 1 (1-7)
• %w - Weekday as a decimal number with Sunday as 0 (0-6)
• %y - Year, last two digits (00-99)
• %Y - Year

* The specifiers marked with an asterisk (*) are locale-dependent.