Sorry to pick holes in your first post to the list ;) but this part of your
suggested regex
(\w{3,})
will match any alphanumeric character (i.e it will match on the numbers or
letters in the string). By limiting it to three places, you force the match
to work. It's not good practice though.
Matching on a non-digit character will produce the same result, with more
flexibility.
So
($day, $month, $year) = $date =~ /(\d+)(\D+)(\d+)/;
^ ^ ^
| | |
Match one or more numbers | |
| |
Match one or more NON numbers |
|
Match one or more numbers again
HTH
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Will Crain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 03 July 2001 15:41
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: A Split Question
-- Original Message --
>My file has dates in it that either come out as "2Jul2001" or "21Jul2001".
> So one or two digits for the day, three for the month, and four for the
>year.
>
>So I would like to split out the day, month, year, and am interested in
>splitting techniques, where there are no delimeters.
>
This is my first contribution to the list, I hope it helps. You should
be able to extract your date data using this regex -
($day, $month, $year) = $date =~ /(\d{1,2})(\w{3,})(\d{4})/;
This assumes $date contains your date string and results in $day, $month
and $year containing the individual data bits.
Will
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