NAME
DateTime::Natural::Parse - Create machine readable date/time with
natural parsing logic
SYNOPSIS
use DateTime::Natural::Parse qw(natural_parse);
$dt = natural_parse($date_string);
DESCRIPTION
"DateTime::Natural::Parse" exports a function, "natural_parse()", by
default which takes a string with a human readable date/time and creates
a machine readable one by applying natural parsing logic.
FUNCTIONS
natural_parse
Creates a "DateTime" object from a human readable date/time string.
$dt = natural_parse($date_string);
$dt = natural_parse($date_string, { debug => 1 });
The options hash may contain the string 'debug' with a boolean value
(0/1). Will output each token that is analysed with a trailing newline.
Returns a "DateTime" object.
EXAMPLES
Below are some examples of human readable date/time input:
thursday
november
friday 13:00
mon 2:35
4pm
6 in the morning
friday 1pm
sat 7 in the evening
yesterday
today
tomorrow
this tuesday
next month
this morning
this second
yesterday at 4:00
last friday at 20:00
last week tuesday
tomorrow at 6:45pm
afternoon yesterday
thursday last week
SEE ALSO
DateTime,
AUTHOR
Steven Schubiger
LICENSE
This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
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