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From: Ruvim <ruvim.pinka@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Parsing timestamps?
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2024 17:34:27 +0400
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On 2024-10-06 17:22, Ruvim wrote:
> On 2024-10-06 15:59, dxf wrote:
>> On 6/10/2024 9:48 pm, Ruvim wrote:
>>> On 2024-10-06 11:51, dxf wrote:
>>>> Is there an easier way of doing this?  End goal is a double number 
>>>> representing centi-secs.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> empty decimal
>>>>
>>>> : SPLIT ( a u c -- a2 u2 a3 u3 )  >r 2dup r> scan 2swap 2 pick - ;
>>>> : >INT ( adr len -- u )  0 0 2swap >number 2drop drop ;
>>>>
>>>> : /T ( a u -- $hour $min $sec )
>>>>     2 0 do  [char] : split  2swap  dup if 1 /string then  loop
>>>>     2 0 do  dup 0= if 2rot 2rot then  loop ;
>>>>
>>>> : .T  2swap 2rot  cr  >int . ." hr "  >int . ." min " >int . ." sec " ;
>>>>
>>>> s" 1:2:3"    /t .t
>>>> s" 02:03"    /t .t
>>>> s" 03"       /t .t
>>>> s" 23:59:59" /t .t
>>>> s" 0:00:03"  /t .t
>>>
>>>
>>> I would use `split-string` factor as:
>>>
>>>    : /t ( sd.time -- sd.hour sd.min sd.sec )
>>>      s" :" split-string
>>>      s" :" split-string
>>>    ;
>>>
>>>    \ Where
>>>
>>>    : split-string
>>>      ( sd.text sd.separator -- sd.left sd.right | sd.text 0 0 )
>>>      dup >r  3 pick >r  ( R: u.[sd.separator][1] addr.[st.text][2] )
>>>      search 0= if 2rdrop 0 0 exit then ( addr u )
>>>      over r@ - r> swap  2swap r> /string
>>>    ;
>>
>> It fails with s" 03".  The test case may be unreasonable so I tried
>> s" :03"  however it also fails.  The complication is most tools scan
>> from the beginning whereas we would like to scan from the end.
> 
> 
> You did not provide output for test cases.
> 
> I expect that "03" is equivalent to "03:00:00", which means 3 hours, 0 
> minutes, 0 seconds.
> And ":03" is equivalent to "00:03:00", which means 0 hours, 3 minutes, 0 
> seconds.
> 
> My above implementation for `/t` produces:
> 
>    s" 1:2:3"   /t .t   \ "1 hr 2 min 3 sec"
>    s" 02:03"   /t .t   \ "2 hr 3 min 0 sec"
>    s" 03"      /t .t   \ "3 hr 0 min 0 sec"
>    s" :03"     /t .t   \ "0 hr 3 min 0 sec"
> 
> 
> What is wrong?
> 
> Maybe your `>int` works incorrectly with an empty string?
> 
> 
> For testing I use:
> 
>    : >int ( sd.number -- u ) 0. 2swap >number 2drop drop ;
>    \ the empty string produces 0


Oh, I missed your definition for ">INT", because you use ">int" (sic 
lower case) in your definition for ".T"


Then, it's unclear what fails on your side.


--
Ruvim