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From: dxf <dxforth@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Parsing timestamps?
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 19:55:34 +1100
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On 8/10/2024 6:41 pm, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
> In article <1f433fabcb4d053d16cbc098dedc6c370608ac01@i2pn2.org>,
> dxf  <dxforth@gmail.com> 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
> 
> This problem is ill posed. You don't specify what happens
> with less that 3 fields, or the meaning of the fields.
> Normally I make the tests to run before attempting to code.

Running this again I get the same (my expected) results (SwiftForth, VFX, Gforth etc).
Not sure how I concluded it was broken.  I've lost track of the iterations done since.
Today I'm liking sjacks' solution.