Made list of invalid dashes even more readable

R/dates_and_times.R

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #' Fix UTC offset strings
-#' 
+#'
 #' UTC offsets can be formatted in multiple ways (e.g. -07, -07:00, -0700) and R often struggles to parse these offsets. This function takes date/time strings with valid UTC offsets, and formats them so that they are consistent and readable by R.
 #'
 #' @param datetime_strings Character vector of dates in ISO 8601 format
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@
 #' @examples
 #' datetimes <- c("2023-11-16T03:32:49+07:00","2023-11-16T03:32:49-07","2023-11-16T03:32:49","2023-11-16T03:32:49Z")
 #' fix_utc_offset(datetimes)  # returns c("2023-11-16T03:32:49+0700", "2023-11-16T03:32:49-0700", "2023-11-16T03:32:49", "2023-11-16T03:32:49+0000") and warns about missing offset (see third element)
-#' 
+#'
 fix_utc_offset <- function(datetime_strings) {
-  datetime_strings <- stringr::str_replace_all(datetime_strings, "[−‐‑‒–—―﹘﹣－]", "-") # replace every possible type of dash with a regular minus sign
-  
+  datetime_strings <- stringr::str_replace_all(datetime_strings, "[\u2212\u2010\u2011\u2012\u2013\u2014\u2015\ufe58\ufe63\uff0d]", "-") # replace every possible type of dash with a regular minus sign
+
   # get UTC offset and format it as 4 digits with no special characters (e.g. 0700)
   new_offsets <- datetime_strings %>%
     stringr::str_extract("[Zz]|((?<=[+-])[0-9]{1,2}:?[0-9]{0,2})$") %>%
@@ -26,16 +26,16 @@ fix_utc_offset <- function(datetime_strings) {
   if (any(new_offsets == "")) {
     warning("Date strings contain missing or invalid UTC offsets")
   }
-  
+
   # remove old UTC offsets from date strings
   datetime_strings <- datetime_strings %>%
     stringr::str_remove("(?<=[+-])[0-9]{1,2}:?[0-9]{0,2}$") %>%
     stringr::str_replace("[Zz](?=$)", "+")
-  
+
   # add new UTC offsets
   datetime_strings <- paste0(datetime_strings, new_offsets) %>%
     stringr::str_remove("[+-](?=$)")  # Remove trailing + or - where invalid offsets were removed
-  
+
   return(datetime_strings)
 }
 
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ fix_utc_offset <- function(datetime_strings) {
 #' @details `convert_datetime_format()` is not a sophisticated function. If the EML format string is not valid, it will happily and without complaint return an R format string that will break your code. You have been warned.  Note that UTC offset formats using a colon or only two digits will be parsed by this function, but if parsing datetime values from strings, you will also need to use `fix_utc_offset` to change the UTC offsets to the +/-hhhh format that R can read.
 #'
 #' @param eml_format_string A character vector of EML date/time format strings. This function understands the following codes: YYYY = four digit year, YY = two digit year, MMM = three letter month abbrev., MM = two digit month, DD = two digit day, hh or HH = 24 hour time, mm = minutes, ss or SS = seconds, +/-hhhh or +/-HHHH = UTC offset.
-#' @param convert_z Should a "Z" at the end of the format string (indicating UTC) be replaced by a "%z"? Only set to `TRUE` if you plan to use `fix_utc_offset` to change "Z" in datetime strings to "+0000". 
+#' @param convert_z Should a "Z" at the end of the format string (indicating UTC) be replaced by a "%z"? Only set to `TRUE` if you plan to use `fix_utc_offset` to change "Z" in datetime strings to "+0000".
 #'
 #' @return A character vector of date/time format strings that can be parsed by `readr` or `strptime`.
 #' @export
@@ -67,10 +67,10 @@ convert_datetime_format <- function(eml_format_string, convert_z = FALSE) {
     stringr::str_replace_all("D", "%d") %>%
     stringr::str_replace_all("[+-][Hh]{1,2}:?[Hh]{0,2}(?=$)", "%z")  # Replace UTC offset format string (e.g. -hh, -hhhh, -hh:hh) with %z. Note that R seems to only parse UTC offsets when in the format +/-hhhh.
   #stringr::str_replace_all("T", " ")
-  
+
   if (convert_z) {
     r_format_string <- stringr::str_replace(r_format_string, "Z(?=$)", "%z")
   }
-  
+
   return(r_format_string)
 }