Re: [Chicken-users] RFC 1123/HTTP-format date parsing

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> "MA" == Moe Aboulkheir <address@hidden> writes:

 MA> I need to parse some RFC 1123 dates, in order to turn them into
 MA> something on which it is easier to perform arithmetic (RFC 1123 is
 MA> the format used, among other things, to describe absolute
 MA> dates/times in HTTP).  I would very much like to avoid writing a
 MA> whole crazy thing to do this from scratch.  I poked around the egg
 MA> directory, grepped for "1123" in the repository and glanced at the
 MA> source for some likely-looking eggs, but didn't find anything.  Any
 MA> ideas?

        While I'm not aware of any existing parsers, implementing one on
        top of some sort of regular expressions implementation and SRFI
        19 [1, 2] seems not to be too much work.

[1] http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-19/srfi-19.html
[2] http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/eggs/srfi-19.html