strptime的威力

今天又发现了一个不错的C函数，可以抓字符串里面的日期和时间！惊悚不！感觉用处不会小，虽然我也没啥机会写出点啥C的小玩具。Anyway, 要留印。来自linux程序设计第四版188。在那里日期格式（Conversion Specifier）以及Linux里面时间值是怎么存储的，说的都很明白。

#define _XOPEN_SOURCE
#include<time.h>
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>



int main(){

    struct tm *tm_ptr, timestruct;
    time_t the_time;
    char buf[256];
    char *result;
    (void) time(&the_time);
    tm_ptr = localtime(&the_time);
    strftime(buf, 256, "%A %d %B, %I:%S %p", tm_ptr);
    printf("strftime gives: %s\n", buf);
    strcpy(buf,"Thu 26 July 2007, 17:53 will do fine");

    printf("calling strptime with: %s\n", buf);
    tm_ptr = ×truct;
    result = strptime(buf,"%a %d %b %Y, %R", tm_ptr);//after we put the 2007 date in the buf, we can use strptime to extract the time part. %R is the shortcut for %H:%M
    printf("strptime consumed up to: %s\n", result);
    printf("strptime gives:\n");
    printf("date: %02d/%02d/%02d\n",tm_ptr->tm_year % 100, tm_ptr->tm_mon+1, tm_ptr->tm_mday);
    printf("time: %02d:%02d\n",tm_ptr->tm_hour, tm_ptr->tm_min);

    exit(0);
}

不过那个result字符串需要一上来就是日期，不然就出错，结尾不是日期倒无所谓。所以真的用的上的时候还是要切数组的。