Version 5.0 The LEDA User Manual

Table 4.1: Token Overview
token input output description
d yes yes day with 1 or 2 digits
dd yes yes day with 2 digits (possibly with leading zero)
dth yes yes day as abbreviated english ordinal number (1st, 2nd,
3rd, 4th, . . . )
m yes yes month with 1 or 2 digits
mm yes yes month with 2 digits (possibly with leading zero)
M yes yes month name (when used in an input format this token
must be followed by a single char c which does not belong
to any month name, c is used to determine the end of
the name. e.g.: ”d.M.yy”)
M:l yes yes the first l characters of the month name (l must be a
single digit)
yy yes yes year with 2 digits (yy is considered to represent a year
in [1950;2049])
yyyy yes yes year with 4 digits
[yy]yy yes yes input: year with 2 or 4 digits / output: same as yyyy
w no yes calendar week (in the range [1;53]) (see get week( ) for
details)
diy no yes day in the year (in the range [1,366])
dow no yes day of the week (1=Monday, . . . , 7=Sunday)
DOW no yes name of the weekday
DOW:l no yes the first l characters of the weekday name (l must be a
single digit)
”txt” yes yes matches/prints txt (txt must not contain a double quote)
’txt’ yes yes matches/prints txt (txt must not contain a single quote)
c yes yes matches/prints c (c /∈ {d, m, M, ?, ∗, ;})
? yes no matches a single arbitrary character
∗c yes no matches any sequence of characters ending with c
; yes yes separates different formats, e.g. ”d.M.yy;dd.mm.yy”
input: the first format that matches the input is used
output: all but the first format is ignored
delim:c yes no c serves as delimiter when reading input from
streams (If this token is used, it must be the
first in the format string.) When you use
”delim:\n;d.M.yy\n;d.m.yyyy\n” as input format to
read a date from a stream, everything until the
first occurence of ”\n” is read and then the format
”d.M.yy\n;d.m.yyyy\n” is applied.
date :: format { user def fmt, US standard, german standard, colons, hyphens }
The format US standard is an abbreviation for mm/dd/[yy]yy, the
format german standard is the same as dd.mm.[yy]yy, the other formats
are the same as the latter except that the periods are replaced
by colons/hyphens.