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From: scott <scott@chronis.pobox.com>
To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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Subject: Re: strptime bug?
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It won't help... the problem is that all the loops that look like this

    for (i = 0; *buf != 0 && isdigit((unsigned char)*buf); buf++)

in strptime.c.

These loops do not terminate whenever the requested format is followed
by a digit in the input buffer.  for example, 

    strptime("199908", "%Y%m", &t) 
      or 
    strptime("199910", "%Y10", &t) 
    
will trigger the problem.

thanks for the pointer to searching the pr's though, didn't know about
that.

scott

On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 06:58:49PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:36:33 -0400, scott wrote:
> 
> > I have a number of dates in YYYYMMDD format (eg 19990922), and am
> > using strptime to parse them, but it's not working:
> 
> Could you try the patch on PR 10131 ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sheldon.


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