Use Date::Parse and Date::Format, it works much the same way. It is part of the TimeDate package on CPAN.
use Date::Parse; use Date::Format; $date = time2str("%Y-%m-%d", str2time("22-January-2002"))' Rob -----Original Message----- From: Lysander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 11:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Date Manipulation I was wondering if there is an easy way to convert between date formats in PERL. Specifically I need to rewrite "22-January-2002" as "2002-01-22" prior to inserting into a date field in MySQL. In PHP (which is what I usually code in) I would just do something like $date = date("Y-m-d",strtotime("22-January-2002")); If anyone could give me a PERL equivalent of this line of code I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks Sheridan Saint-Michel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]