Date Parser 📅

Robust parsing and formatting utilities for Go time.Time values.

Part of the entiqon common/extension toolkit.

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✨ Features

• Parse strings and interfaces into time.Time
• Clean and normalize date inputs before parsing
• Support for default layouts (e.g. 2006-01-02, 20060102, 02-01-2006)
• Customizable formatters with ParseAndFormat
• Error handling for invalid and incomplete inputs
• Full test coverage (file → methods → cases)

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📑 API Reference

ParseFrom(value any) (time.Time, error)

Attempt to parse supported values into time.Time.

• string → parsed against known date layouts after cleaning
• []byte → parsed as string
• time.Time → returned directly
• unsupported/nil → returns error

ParseAndFormat(value any, layout string) (string, error)

Parse an input into a time, then format with a given Go layout.

Cleaning(raw string) string

Normalize a raw date string by trimming, removing spaces, replacing separators, etc.

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🔹 Usage Examples

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "github.com/entiqon/common/extension/date"
)

func main() {
    t, _ := date.ParseFrom("2025-08-21")
    fmt.Println(t.Format("2006-01-02"))

    out := date.ParseAndFormat("21/08/2025", "2006-01-02")
    fmt.Println(out)
}

Output:

2025-08-21
2025-08-21

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📌 Summary

• Core: ParseFrom(any) (time.Time, error)
• Formatting: ParseAndFormat(any, layout string) (string, error)
• Cleaning: Cleaning(string) string