[BUGZILLA #17208] strptime, "%OS" and "."

[MichaelChirico]

Recall that the "%OS" conversion accepts fractional seconds:

strptime("17_35_14.01234.mp3","%H_%M_%OS.mp3")$sec

[1] 14.01234

Unfortunately for my application it seems to be "greedy", in that it tries to parse a decimal point which might belong to the rest of the format:

strptime("17_35_14.mp3","%H_%M_%OS.mp3")

[1] NA

If I use "_" instead of ".", then it works:

strptime("17_35_14_mp3","%H_%M_%OS_mp3")

[1] "2017-01-10 17:35:14 PST"

It would be nice if the code for R's "strptime" could avoid parsing the "." into the "%OS" specifier if it is not followed by a number.

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METADATA

• Bug author - Frederick Eaton
• Creation time - 2017-01-12 21:44:05 UTC
• Bugzilla link
• Status - UNCONFIRMED
• Alias - None
• Component - Language
• Version - R 3.3.*
• Hardware - Other Linux
• Importance - P5 enhancement
• Assignee - R-core
• URL -