scrapinghub / scrapinghub/dateparser
not finding date in multi-line string seperated by newlines - suggest adding functionality
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Description
was not finding date in a multi-line string which had a date in it
The following code did make dateparser usable but it would be nicer if it already did this without needing the following code
maybe an optional argument split_lines='\n' to let user define how to split text so dateparser can succeed in more use cases than failing to find the date
#split into lines and find line with date pattern
lines = text.split('\n')
for line in lines:
date = dateparser.parse(line)
if date:
break
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Start by tracing how dateparser.parse handles multiline strings and compare it with the issue's line-splitting workaround. Check how an optional split_lines='\n' argument could support this use case, then verify that multiline input containing a date is parsed while existing single-line behavior remains unchanged.
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- python
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- backend
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- Feature
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