ScanDateTime

Scans a string for a TDateTime pattern and returns the date/time

Declaration

Source position: dateutil.inc line 440

  function ScanDateTime(const Pattern: string; const s: string; 
                       const fmt: TFormatSettings; startpos: Integer)
                        : TDateTime;  Overload;
  function ScanDateTime(const Pattern: string; const s: string; 
                       startpos: Integer) : TDateTime;  Overload;

Description

ScanDateTime scans string S for the date/time pattern Pattern, starting at position StartPos (default 1). Optionally, the format settings fmt can be specified.

In effect, this function does the opposite of what FormatDateTime does. The Pattern variable must contain a valid date/time pattern: note that not all possible formatdatetime patterns can be recognized, e.g., hn cannot be detected properly.

Errors

In case of an error, a EConvertError exception is raised.

See also