RE: Date in perl

Thanks Luke now I understand how to do it thanks



-----Original Message-----
From: Bakken, Luke [mailto:Luke.Bakken@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 10:22 AM
To: Gomez, Juan; beginners@xxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Date in perl



Hi all


I have a problem need to work with date

I have a input like these : 20050829 and I need to change it to
something like this : Aug 29 2005

but it still eludes me how to do that

can anyone help me please?

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I normally don't just give out answers. Next time I'm sure someone will
say "do your own homework....".

If you want to do this yourself, look at the following:

POSIX module (strftime function)
substr function.

Otherwise, look at the code below.





























use strict;
use POSIX;

my $date = 20050829;
my ($y, $m, $d) = (substr($date, 0, 4), substr($date, 4, 2),
substr($date, 6, 2));

print strftime("%a %d %Y", 0, 0, 0, $d, $m-1, $y-1900);

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