PM>> Anyway, I rewrote dtsplit last night so that it can handle dates that

 PM>> aren't quite up to scratch. I haven't done extensive tests but it

 PM>> appears to be working. Basically, this version isn't particularly fussy

 PM>> about spaces and leading zeros. It will even handle a date such as

 PM>> "1JAN94 1:2:3" correctly.



 PE> I don't know whether to flog that or not.  I think I'll keep the one I've

 PE> got, because at the moment, it will continue processing, no matter what

 PE> the date is, but it will flag every violation as such.  BFN.



I'm now using it in my packet sorter, so (eventually) you'll get it and you
can do what you like with it. It was written to maximise the chance of
handling the date and time, even if it has to do a little fiddling on the
way through. For instance, if you pass it an invalid time, say
"25:66:77" it'll merrily change this to "23:59:59"
without ever informing you there's a problem.



While I was testing the program and comparing the results to the original
dtsplit, I noticed one discrepency. If you use a date of "01 Jan
05", the original will treat the year as 1905 while mine will treat it
as 2005.





Paul



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