[ ruby-Bugs-5263 ] strptime fails to properly parse certain inputs

Bugs item #5263, was opened at 2006-08-01 23:14
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Category: Standard Library
Group: 1.8.x
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Michael Fischer (otterley)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: strptime fails to properly parse certain inputs

Initial Comment:
Date.strptime and DateTime.strptime do not properly parse certain forms of input in which there are no non-numeric separators between the fields.  

For example, the following code fails:

Date.strptime("20060401", "%Y%m%d")
ArgumentError: 3 elements of civil date are necessary
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb:650:in `new_with_hash'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb:675:in `strptime'
        from (irb):21
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb:1197

The following code, however, works as expected:

x = Date.strptime("2006 04 01", "%Y %m %d")
=> #<Date: 4907653/2,0,2299161>

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