Jay Savage wrote:
> On 8/27/05, Gomez, Juan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
>> Armando
>>
>
> Take a look at the Date::Manip module:
Understood, but quite a bit of routine for getting the date out in the
format that Armando wants. If he had alot of date manipultion, okay, but this
the unapck and a simple array of month names would be much easy and alot less
overhead.
Wags ;)
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use warnings;
> use strict;
> use Date::Manip;
>
> my $date = UnixDate(ParseDate("20050829"), "%b %e %Y");
> print "$date\n";
>
> See perldoc Date::Manip for the details. Roll you own solutions are
> faster for specific conversions, but if you're oging to be doing a lot
> of date conversions, Date::Manip is your friend.
>
> HTH,
>
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