NAME

DateTime::Format::Text - Find a Date in Text

VERSION

Version 0.08

SYNOPSIS

Find a date in any text.

    use DateTime::Format::Text;
    my $dft = DateTime::Format::Text->new();
    # ...

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

new

Creates a DateTime::Format::Text object. Takes no arguments

parse_datetime

Synonym for parse().

parse

Returns a DateTime object constructed from a date/time string embedded in arbitrary text.

Can be called as a class or object method.

When called in an array context, returns an array containing all of the matches.

If the given test is an object, it's sent the message as_string() and that is parsed

    use Class::Simple;
    my $foo = Class::Simple->new();
    $foo->as_string('25/12/2022');
    my $dt = $dft->parse($foo);

    # or

    print DateTime::Format::Text->parse('25 Dec 2021, 11:00 AM UTC')->epoch(), "\n";

AUTHOR

Nigel Horne, <njh at bandsman.co.uk>

Based on https://github.com/etiennetremel/PHP-Find-Date-in-String. Here's the author information from that:

author Etienne Tremel license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC by 3.0 link http://www.etiennetremel.net version 0.2.0

BUGS

SEE ALSO

DateTime::Format::Natural

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc DateTime::Format::Text

You can also look for information at:

• RT: CPAN's request tracker

  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=DateTime-Format-Text

• Search CPAN

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/DateTime-Format-Text/

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2019-2024 Nigel Horne.

This program is released under the following licence: GPL2

cpanm DateTime::Format::Text

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install DateTime::Format::Text