checkTimeFormat {googlePublicData}

DSPL time format verification

Description

Checks if a string fulfills the joda-times class specifications supported by DSPL language.

Usage

checkTimeFormat(fmt)

Arguments

fmt

String representing a time format to be verified.

Details

Public Data Explorer currently supports daily, monthly and yearly distributed data. Joda-time, the corresponding time format on which DSPL times is based, allows declaring time formats using small case "d" (for days), capitalized "M" (for months) and small case "y" for years. Some examples:

Format Specification	Data Example
"yyyy"	1988
"yyyy-MM"	1988-03
"yyyy-MMM"	1988-Mar
"dd-MM-yyyy"	02-03-1988

Value

Logical. TRUE if the string passes the test.

Author(s)

George G. Vega Yon

References

• Google Public Data Explorer DSPL time definition: https://developers.google.com/public-data/docs/canonical/time?hl=es

• Google Public Data Explorer Cookbook for time definitions: https://developers.google.com/public-data/docs/cookbook#time_recipes

• Joda Time 2.1 API: http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/api-release/org/joda/time/format/DateTimeFormat.html

See Also

See also dspl

Examples

    checkTimeFormat("yyyy-MM") # TRUE
    checkTimeFormat("MMMyyyy") # TRUE
    checkTimeFormat("mmmyyyy") # FALSE