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Date parse patterns

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/* Array of objects, each has 're', a regular expression and 'handler', a 
   function for creating a date from something that matches the regular 
   expression. Handlers may throw errors if string is unparseable. 
*/// w ww .j av  a 2s .co m
var dateParsePatterns = [
    // Today
    {   re: /  od/i,
        handler: function() { 
            return new Date();
        } 
    },
    // Tomorrow
    {   re: /  om/i,
        handler: function() {
            var d = new Date(); 
            d.setDate(d.getDate() + 1); 
            return d;
        }
    },
    // Yesterday
    {   re: /^yes/i,
        handler: function() {
            var d = new Date();
            d.setDate(d.getDate() - 1);
            return d;
        }
    },
    // 4th
    {   re: /^(\d{1,2})(st|nd|rd|th)?$/i, 
        handler: function(bits) {
            var d = new Date();
            d.setDate(parseInt(bits[1], 10));
            return d;
        }
    },
    // 4th Jan
    {   re: /^(\d{1,2})(?:st|nd|rd|th)? (\w+)$/i, 
        handler: function(bits) {
            var d = new Date();
            d.setDate(parseInt(bits[1], 10));
            d.setMonth(parseMonth(bits[2]));
            return d;
        }
    },
    // 4th Jan 2003
    {   re: /^(\d{1,2})(?:st|nd|rd|th)? (\w+),? (\d{4})$/i,
        handler: function(bits) {
            var d = new Date();
            d.setDate(parseInt(bits[1], 10));
            d.setMonth(parseMonth(bits[2]));
            d.setYear(bits[3]);
            return d;
        }
    },
    // Jan 4th
    {   re: /^(\w+) (\d{1,2})(?:st|nd|rd|th)?$/i, 
        handler: function(bits) {
            var d = new Date();
            d.setDate(parseInt(bits[2], 10));
            d.setMonth(parseMonth(bits[1]));
            return d;
        }
    },
    // Jan 4th 2003
    {   re: /^(\w+) (\d{1,2})(?:st|nd|rd|th)?,? (\d{4})$/i,
        handler: function(bits) {
            var d = new Date();
            d.setDate(parseInt(bits[2], 10));
            d.setMonth(parseMonth(bits[1]));
            d.setYear(bits[3]);
            return d;
        }
    },
    // next Tuesday - this is suspect due to weird meaning of "next"
    {   re: /ext (\w+)$/i,
        handler: function(bits) {
            var d = new Date();
            var day = d.getDay();
            var newDay = parseWeekday(bits[1]);
            var addDays = newDay - day;
            if (newDay <= day) {
                addDays += 7;
            }
            d.setDate(d.getDate() + addDays);
            return d;
        }
    },
    // last Tuesday
    {   re: /^last (\w+)$/i,
        handler: function(bits) {
            throw new Error("Not yet implemented");
        }
    },
    // mm/dd/yyyy (American style)
    {   re: /(\d{1,2})\/(\d{1,2})\/(\d{4})/,
        handler: function(bits) {
            var d = new Date();
            d.setYear(bits[3]);
            d.setDate(parseInt(bits[2], 10));
            d.setMonth(parseInt(bits[1], 10) - 1); // Because months indexed from 0
            return d;
        }
    },
    // yyyy-mm-dd (ISO style)
    {   re: /(\d{4})-(\d{1,2})-(\d{1,2})/,
        handler: function(bits) {
            var d = new Date();
            d.setYear(parseInt(bits[1]));
            d.setMonth(parseInt(bits[2], 10) - 1);
            d.setDate(parseInt(bits[3], 10));
            return d;
        }
    },
];

function parseDateString(s) {
    for (var i = 0; i < dateParsePatterns.length; i++) {
        var re = dateParsePatterns[i].re;
        var handler = dateParsePatterns[i].handler;
        var bits = re.exec(s);
        if (bits) {
            return handler(bits);
        }
    }
    throw new Error("Invalid date string");
}

function fmt00(x) {
    // fmt00: Tags leading zero onto numbers 0 - 9.
    // Particularly useful for displaying results from Date methods.
    //
    if (Math.abs(parseInt(x)) < 10){
        x = "0"+ Math.abs(x);
    }
    return x;
}

function parseDateStringISO(s) {
    try {
        var d = parseDateString(s);
        return d.getFullYear() + '-' + (fmt00(d.getMonth() + 1)) + '-' + fmt00(d.getDate())
    }
    catch (e) { return s; }
}

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