Aah... I was so close. But slightly on the wrong track by using "split".. I had the
regex as below.
Now I just need to work out how to use this with my sort hash question.
Thanks Pierre.
In reply-to "Pierre Smolarek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue Jul 3 13:01:43 2001
>my $dateis = "2Jul2001";
>my ($date,$month,$year) = $dateis =~ /([0-9]+)([A-Za-z]+)([0-9]+)/;
>
>print "$date - $month - $year \n";
>
>:)
>
>with regards,
>
>Pierre
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 12:24 PM
>Subject: A Split Question
>
>
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> My file has dates in it that either come out as "2Jul2001" or "21Jul2001".
>So one or two digits for the day, three for the month, and four for the
>year.
>>
>> So I would like to split out the day, month, year, and am interested in
>splitting techniques, where there are no delimeters.
>>
>> Of course, I could just test the length and then use substr it all out, or
>even sprintf it into a new variable with a pad at the first character.
>>
>> But this is perl, and I reckon there are much cooler ways to do it.
>>
>> Any takers?
>>
>> Paul.
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