NAME ParseDate -- interpret a string according to the date formatting template and convert it into a datestamp. (v38) SYNOPSIS state = ParseDate(locale,date,fmtTemplate,getCharFunc); D0 A0 A1 A2 A3 bool parsedate(struct locale *,struct datestamp *,strptr,struct hook *); FUNCTION This function converts a stream of characters into an AmigaDOS datestamp structure. the characters are obtained from the getCharFunc callback hook and the formatting template is used to direct the parse. INPUTS locale - the locale to use for the formatting date - place to put the converted date, this may be NULL in which case this routine can be used to simply validate a date fmtTemplate - the date template describing the expected format of the data. See formatdate() documentation for a description of date templates. The following formatting controls from formatdate() can be used in parsedate(): %a %A %b %B %d %e %h %H %I %m %M %p %S %y %Y getCharFunc - a callback hook invoked whenever a character is required. The hook should return the next character to process, with a NULL character to indicate the end of the string. The hook is called with: A0 - address of hook structure A1 - locale pointer A2 - NULL The hook returns the character to process in D0. Note that a complete 32-bit result is expected in D0, not just 8 bits. RESULT state - TRUE if the parsing went OK, or FALSE if the input did not match the template SEE ALSO formatdate(), <dos/dos.h>