How to get strptime to raise ArgumentError with garbage trailing characters
- by Matt Briggs
We have to handle user specified date formats in our application. We decided to go with Date.strptime for parsing and validation, which works great, except for how it just ignores any garbage data entered. Here is an irb session demonstrating the issue
ree-1.8.7-2010.01 > require 'date'
=> true
ree-1.8.7-2010.01 > d = Date.strptime '2001-01-01failfailfail', '%Y-%m-%d'
=> #<Date: 4903821/2,0,2299161>
ree-1.8.7-2010.01 > d.to_s
=> "2001-01-01"
what we would like, is behavior more like this
ree-1.8.7-2010.01 > d = Date.strptime '2001failfailfail-01-01', '%Y-%m-%d'
ArgumentError: invalid date
Any suggestions would be appreciated
