guess_date_format: Guesses the format of a date in a string.

In ramnathv/intellidate: Intelligent parsing and formatting of dates in R

Description

Matches date components using a simple heuristic and leaves the other elements of the string untouched.

Usage

  guess_date_format(string, default = "mdy")

Arguments

a	string consisting of date components

Examples

guess_date_format("Jan 1, 1999")           #= "%b %e, %Y"
guess_date_format("Jan 2001")              #= "%b %Y"
guess_date_format("Sunday, May 1, 2000")   #= "%A, %B %e, %Y"
guess_date_format("Sun Aug 5")             #= "%a %b %e"
guess_date_format("12/31/99")              #= "%m/%d/%y"
guess_date_format("DOB:12/11/00")          #= "DOB:%m/%d/%y"
guess_date_format('20 01 89')              #= "%d %m %y"
guess_date_format('1 13 89')               #= "%m %d %y"
guess_date_format('00/13/10')              #= "%y/%d/%m"

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