On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Rick Measham wrote:
> Not a bug. Strptime is a ::Format module, all it does is takes a string
> and returns a DateTime.
>
> However, once you have your formatter object, it's as simple as calling
> $formatter->format_datetime( $dt );
>
>
> So, putting the whole thing together you get this:
> my $filename = $formatter->format_datetime(
> $formatter->parse_datetime('200508050801')
> ->truncate( to => 'month' )
> );
> # 200508010000
Thanks.
> Slipped past you in both the DateTime docs and the Strptime docs as it's
> discussed in both .. :)
Yeah it's a senior thing you know. :-)
Again thanks,
Rod
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