On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:39:05PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, this won't be the "most" efficient way, but it should be > reasonably efficient, and will work with dates that include varying > degrees of pre-existing zero-padding. <snip> > $date =~ s%^(\d)(?=/)%0$1%; > $date =~ s%(?<=^\d\d/)(\d)(?=/)%0$1%;
Folks, I'm clawing my eyes out here. Stop hitting the regex crack pipe! $date = sprintf "%02d/%02d/%d", split '/', $date; -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One no paste enema lycos is taught about it my ass is sealed -- Schwern