Translating English into useful data structures
val parse_int : string ‑> intparse_int s: Like standard int_of_string, but try to convert the first
twenty english numbers (eg. "one", "two", ... "twenty"). Only lowercase strings are
parsed.
parse_int "thirteen"- : int = 13
parse_int "5296"- : int = 5296
parse_int "twenty five"Exception: (Failure int_of_string).
val parse_date : ?relative_to:Core.Date.t ‑> string ‑> Core.Date.tparse_date s: Convert a date in plain english (eg. "yesterday," "tomorrow," etc.) to
a Date.t. Case is ignored in the input.
parse_date "Yesterday"parse_date "6 8 2010"parse_date "4 days hence"parse_date "24 weekdays ago"
You can specify the optional argument to interpret "today", "yesterday" etc. relative
to the given date, otherwise they are relative to Date.today ~zone:Time.Zone.local.
val parse_time : string ‑> Core.Time.t