Something like TryParse for dates/times in c++ (non-Windows)?

Question

Does anyone know of a library that offers something similar to .NET's Parse/TryParse for dates and times that can be used on Linux from C++?

I've looked at the Boost date/time code but I'm not sure that I can do it without specifying the particular input format before attempting to parse. Basically, I might have dates in any number of formats, and want to simply throw it at a function and see if I get something useful out of it before having to deal with edge cases and whatnot.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Answer 1

glib has date parsing code. It is a C library but widely available on Linux. You could also use the C++ bindings, glibmm.

Here is the date parsing API for glib and glibmm.

Answer 2

In C++ we use the stream operators for that type of thing:
See http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_39_0/doc/html/date_time/date_time_io.html

std::stringstream ss;
ss << "2004-Jan-01";

date d;
ss >> d; // Should throw on bad format.