🐞 fc-date and fc-end is not being parsed correctly when a custom date format is set with hyphens about calendarium HOT 4 CLOSED

@OhMyDeera Unfortunately I have spent quite a bit of time trying to fix this issue but its almost impossible to make this generic.

I am going to update the setting in the creator to reflect that this is for the Display Date format, and require dashes when parsing.

from calendarium.

I did play with this updating this to allow spaces:

let datebits = datestring.split(/(?!^)[-–—](?![^[]*])/);

but unfortunately that ignores other delimiters that could be used in a date format. Realistically I need to actually parse these bits against the format that was specified.

from calendarium.

Yeah that's a good point. I only did a quick scan through the code, but can take a more in depth look and try to come up with an actual solution once I've got some time if you'd like.
One idea could be using RegExp and using the date format supplied in the config to build a dynamic regex to get the day, month and year regardless of what seperators they are using. Though doing so whilst also making sure the recurring dates still parse as expected may prove to be fiddly.

from calendarium.

Yeah that's a good point. I only did a quick scan through the code, but can take a more in depth look and try to come up with an actual solution once I've got some time if you'd like. One idea could be using RegExp and using the date format supplied in the config to build a dynamic regex to get the day, month and year regardless of what seperators they are using. Though doing so whilst also making sure the recurring dates still parse as expected may prove to be fiddly.

I think what would help most is any suggestion of additional tests for formats. ;) we have some, but obviously forgot this one. That way we fix this w/o breaking others.

A split based on (any non-word/non-digit character) could also do it. The other option is not to use split at all, but use regex find. We need the first three, and then the starting position of content after that as the ordinal.

from calendarium.