After all this time there must be a jolly good reason why FH still insists on having a space between day number and month name.
It copes OK with no spaces in the rest of the string, so what's different here?
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errr... I doubt it.Paul White said: ...there must be a jolly good reason...
I'm sure it's been mentioned before, but my feeling is it should accept as input any reasonable unambiguous representation of a date as text, regardless of spaces or punctuation, regardless of [sup]st[/sup] or [sup]th[/sup] or 'day of...', or 'Monday the...' (except in so far as they identify the day number), regardless of day/month sequence (unless it's ambiguous and they're both numeric and between 1 and 12), and accept that omitted centuries are usually guessable from the context (and hardly ever mean 1st century AD), and recognising 'about' or 'approx' etc. and all their conventional abbreviations either before or after the date, and interpret it as best it can, and display it in its (or your) preferred format. Then you can copy and paste from a variety of sources (which should always be recommended to minimise errors) rather than mentally interpreting and retyping.
If you really want it to store a date phrase you can type the quotes.