On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, John W. Krahn wrote:
> Christopher M Burger wrote:
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone could help me. Here is my question.
> >
> > I have a date 03242003 I want it to look like 03/24/2003 how do I do that?
> >
> > Appreciate any help.
>
> my $date = '03242003';
>
> $date = join '/', unpack 'a2a2a4', $date;
Excellent.
I had skimmed through pack and unpack, but there were no
important uses that I could find. So, I didn't pay much
attention to them.
The above example has made me think twice.
I'm going through them right away!!
Thanks John.
bye,
George P.
>
> Or:
> $date =~ s,(?<=\d\d)(\d\d),/$1/,;
>
> Or:
> substr( $date, 4, 0, '/' );
> substr( $date, 2, 0, '/' );
>
>
>
> John
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