TextToDate function does not convert properly

[Alfredo Torre]

Please, try to run this TOL code:

Text MyFormat = "%n%Y";
Text Txt01 = FormatDate(y2007m04d01, MyFormat);
Date Dte01 = TextToDate("Abr2007", MyFormat);
Date Dte02 = TextToDate(FormatDate(y2007m04d01, MyFormat), MyFormat);

Dte01 and Dte02 are both TheBegin date.

[Víctor de Buen Remiro]

I will see how difficult is to solve it
Thanks for reporting

[Víctor de Buen Remiro]

Problem has been fixed in CVS (1.1.6 and 1.1.7).

If you try this non compact format, it's to say, a blanck separated format, you will get you are expecting:

Text MyFormat = "%n %Y";
Text Txt01 = FormatDate(y2007m04d01, MyFormat);
Date Dte01 = TextToDate("Abr 2007", MyFormat);
Date Dte02 = TextToDate(FormatDate(y2007m04d01, MyFormat), MyFormat);

Problem was that the date parser uses sscanf to be so fast as possible and this function don't stop reading after a blanck character is found or a specific number of characters has been readed. This limit was fixed to %64s to be valid both short (%n) and long (%N) month formats, but short month has fixed length 3 and so is parseable with sscanf using %3s. Then it has been easy to touch the internal code to make inversible the compact format. However, long months are of variable length and will not be inversible using a compact format.