Parse ISO 8601 durations
In ISO 8601, durations are given in the format P[n]Y[n]M[n]DT[n]H[n]M[n]S . Examples: 20 seconds: PT20.0S One year, 2 month, 3 days, 4 hours, 5 minutes, 6 seconds: P1Y2M3DT4H5M6S Question: Given a string that contains a duration in iso 8601 format. I want to obtain the overall number of seconds of that duration. What is the recommended way in standard C++11 to achieve this? Remarks: E.g., there is ptime from_iso_string(std::string) in boost DateTime which does not fit here. Is there a similar way without doing a regex by hand? Use the standard regex library, the regex you want is something