NSDate detection with NSDataDetector
ios, nsdatadetector, nsdate, nsregularexpression, objective-c
Solution
Actually, the method I wrote works really well :). Unfortunately, the Region Format in my test phone was set to US and was never set back to Australia : My bad..
@joiningss : Throw some random formatted date string to that methods and you will be amazed, how apple has made it easy for developers. Anyway, thank you so much.
@mrt,Chavda&Greg : Thanks a lot guys. I really appreciate your help.
Problem
I tried to get a NSDate from a NSString with UNKNOWN format, So I wrote a function like below ``` -(void)dateFromString:(NSString*)string { NSError *error = NULL; NSDataDetector *detector = [NSDataDetector dataDetectorWithTypes:(NSTextCheckingTypes)NSTextCheckingTypeDate error:&error]; NSArray *matches = [detector matchesInString:string options:0 range:NSMakeRange(0, [string length])]; NSLocale* currentLoc = [NSLocale currentLocale]; for (NSTextCheckingResult *match in matches) { if ([match resultType] == NSTextCheckingTypeDate) { NSLog(@"Date : %@", [[match date] descriptionWithLocale:currentLoc]); } } } ``` It works well except for one place. If I invoke ``` [self dateFromString:@"6/12"]; ``` It prints Date : Thursday, June 12, 2014 at 12:00:00 PM Australian Eastern Standard Time At the same time if I call ``` [self dateFromString:@"13/12"]; ``` it prints Date : Friday, December 13, 2013 at 12:00:00 PM Australian Eastern Daylight Time Basically, I want the function to behave consistent. Since I live in Australia, it should have returned December 6 for the first execution. Second call result is correct. What am I doing wrong here?