All,
I have a client that suddenly submits dates in 17MAR2013 format that isn't handled by current import code. This format is easy enough to parse, but I recall clever routines from yesteryear that could parse just about any legible free text expression into a date rather than just this variant. Rather than reinventing the wheel, I've checked downloads without joy and wonder whether anybody has a pointer to such a routine. Thanks, - J
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1