--- Craig Moynes/Markham/IBM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip . . . ]
> The number of mini-regexp differs depending on the date format line
> the user enters. So i find out how make keys there are (thus the
> number of mini-regexps) and try to construct a string that will print
> out whatever
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Craig Moynes/Markham/IBM wrote:
> I know there are plenty of wonderful Date manipulators (Date::Calc would
> simply my life unimaginably) but I am still waiting to hear back from our
> Legal Dept. regarding the use of the modules. I know that I should be
> allowed to use them
Thanks,
I know there are plenty of wonderful Date manipulators (Date::Calc would
simply my life unimaginably) but I am still waiting to hear back from our
Legal Dept. regarding the use of the modules. I know that I should be
allowed to use them considering the modules found as part of perl often
Not sure if this will help you at this point, but I strongly recommend the
Date::Manip module for anything involving parsing dates. It does everything you can
imagine with dates and more. Tell it to parse your dates, and boom you can print
them however you want, get differences, etc. There are ple
Perfect, thanks. I think I saw that earlier ...stupid brain :)
-
Craig Moynes
Internship Student
netCC Development
IBM Global Services, Canada
Tel: (905) 316-3486
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tip for those posting (or even just creating)
long regexes:
If you stick a /x on the end of a regex,
whitespace in the regex is ignored, so
you can break it up into multiple lines,
indent lines as appropriate, add spaces
where nice, and comments, etc. One
thing to remember if you do this: white
s
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Craig Moynes/Markham/IBM wrote:
> $values =~ s/.*$self->{DF_REGEXP}.*/$replaceString/g;
Perhaps you actually want:
@values_arr = $values =~ /.*$self->{DF_REGEXP}.*/
This will give you an array of the atomized matches in your regexp, and
you don't need to fool around with th
Continuing with the problems for my 'date formatting' script.
I am reading in a complete record from a logfile. I check to see if the
regexp matches to something inside the record.
Then I want to find the what each grouped mini-regexp matched up with in
the monster one at the bottom of the email
