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Monday, October 25. 2010
Perl Custom Date Parsing
I was recently asked how to do custom date parsing in Perl, specifically for a date in the format mmddyyyy. I work with dates frequently in Java, so I am familiar with using SimpleDateFormat objects to parse dates in this manner. The Perl equivalent is Date::Manip::Date.
Sample code to process a date in this format:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Date::Manip::Date;
my $teststring = "01222010";
my $date = new Date::Manip::Date;
$date->parse_format("%m%d%Y", $teststring);
print $date->printf("%B %d, %Y") . "\n";
This code requires Date::Manip::Date, which is in Date::Manip 6.x but not Date::Manip 5.x so an update from CPAN may be required.
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