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, > > -- jay > -------------------------------------------------- > This email and attachment(s): [ ] blogable; [ x ] ask first; [ ] > private and confidential > > daggerquill [at] gmail [dot] com > http://www.tuaw.com http://www.dpguru.com http://www.engatiki.org > > values of ? will give rise to dom! ******************************************************* This message contains information that is confidential and proprietary to FedEx Freight or its affiliates. It is intended only for the recipient named and for the express purpose(s) described therein. Any other use is prohibited. ******************************************************* -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>