On May 13, Harry Putnam said: >Is there a date manipulation module that does the same thing as gnu >`date -d' command? That is, given a spec string, it returns a date in >the past in user selected format. > >Like what gnu `date' would do with: > date -d '-2 weeks' +"%m%d%Y_%T" > 04292004_13:20:28
You can use the standard (i.e. comes with Perl) POSIX module. It has a strftime() function that behaves like C's does. Read the man page for strftime and you'll have a pretty good idea how to use POSIX::strftime(). use POSIX 'strftime'; my $date = strftime "format string", localtime; -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ CPAN ID: PINYAN [Need a programmer? If you like my work, let me know.] <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
