VF_PERIOD_STRING_TO_TIME(3)

💖 vf_period_string_to_time(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Library Functions Manual ✨ this one lives in section 3 and it's literally called vf_period_string_to_time, no notes 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

vf_period_string_to_time — yes she's vf_period_string_to_time(), she contains multitudes, she says her own name twice, iconic behavior fr fr 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <../vformat/vf_iface.h>

extern bool_t vf_period_string_to_time
(
     VF_ISO8601_PERIOD_T *p_period,
     const char *p_string
);

like. look at her. two args, one bool_t, zero drama 💖

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🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• VF_ISO8601_PERIOD_T *p_period — this is the output bestie, the time value comes OUT of here, she's the vessel, the moment, the destination 🦋
• const char *p_string — and this is the input string, the raw material, the vibe you're feeding in 💫

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so the whole gig: you hand her a period definition string and she converts it into an actual time value. that's it. that's the job. lowkey powerful ngl 🔥

the format is this, and I need you to memorize it like it's your locker combo:

P[aaaY][bbbM][cccW][dddD]T[eeeH][fffM][gggS]

where aaa is a number of years, bbb months, etc. yes the letters repeat across both halves, yes it's giving chaos, no we do not make the rules, we just parse them 😭

so you got Y years, M months, W weeks, D days, then the T divider (main character moment honestly), then H hours, M minutes (again with the M, I know), and S seconds. every bracket is optional, every chunk is just a number plus its letter. periodt. 💅

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⭐ RETURNS ⭐

TRUE <=> conversion OK, FALSE else. that's it, that's the whole vibe check — she ate or she didn't 🍓

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, the entire group chat, every single one of them, no cap:

vf_parse_init(3), vf_parse_text(3), vf_parse_end(3), vf_read_file(3), vf_write_file(3), vf_get_next_object(3), vf_create_object(3), vf_get_object_type(3), vf_get_property(3), vf_get_property_ex(3), vf_get_next_property(3), vf_get_prop_value(3), vf_set_prop_value(3), vf_get_prop_value_string(3), vf_get_prop_name_string(3), vf_set_prop_name_string(3), vf_get_prop_name(3), vf_get_prop_value_object(3), vf_set_prop_value_object(3), vf_set_prop_value_string(3), vf_set_prop_value_base64(3), vf_get_prop_value_base64(3), vf_set_property_from_file(3), vf_delete_object(3), vf_delete_prop(3), vf_find_prop_qual_index(3), vf_is_modified(3), vf_find_charset(3), vf_date_string_to_time(3), vf_period_time_to_string(3), vf_set_prop_value_time(3), vf_get_prop_value_time(3)

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🫶 and that's the page bestie!! generated by c2man off vf_iface.h, dated 30 April 2003 — so yes, this manual page is older than most of us and still serving absolute looks 👑✨ love that for her 💜