parsing dates

[David Sewell]

On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Joe Wicentowski wrote:

> As far as your specific question, you could run a series of "if ($date
> castable as ...) then ... else" statements on the following datatypes:

[...]

> As an alternative to conditional expressions, I'm not sure if
> typeswitch would work for this?

typeswitch tests for node kinds, not data types, so the "if castable"
approach is probably the way to go (barring the custom data type
solution that Michael mentioned).

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