[bidwatcher-devel] Handle Ebay time through configurable regular expression

[Martin M. <ma...@an...>]

Hi

Ages ago I promised to give some help with the new version of bidwatcher
and provided some minor patches.  Then I got distracted by real-life, as
tends to happen.

Anyway, I hope to have a little available time now.

If you're interested, here's a patch that slightly changes the way dates
are extracted from the "eBay Time" page.  This uses a regular expression
to specify how to grab the current date/time, the idea being that if
(when!) eBay change the format of that page the config file can be
updated with a new regex rather than having to recode the extraction
routine and push out a new version of the software.  Another
configurable string says how to extract the relevent matches from the
regex.

This patch doesn't allow the config file to override the hard-coded
regex yet.  If you're interested, I'll put that in and tighten up the
error checking.  If you're not, I'll not waste my time :-)

Cheers,
Martin
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