Re: Query in Perl Programming

S, Rajini (STSD) wrote:
> Thanks Jacinta. 
> 
> I could find date formatter that represents date in various 
> Fomarts. 
> 
> Is there a date Converter which converts the date, 
> 
> Eg : given date 27-Jan-09, to be converted to 27.01.2009.

I'd suggest looking at Date::Parse, and strftime from the POSIX module. 
   strftime gets my vote for the least well documented function in the 
Perl core module libraries (although this may be because I haven't 
studied all of the functions available).  If you don't have a Unix 
system available, or a copy of the ANSI C standard, then you may find 
the following page helpful to build your format string:

  	http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strftime.html

for example, assuming that @dateparts contains the correct elements, 
then you could convert as follows:

	use POSIX qw(strftime);

	my $new_date = strftime("%d.%m.%Y", @dateparts);

	# $new_date is now in the correct format.

Do read the documentation for strftime though ( 
http://perldoc.perl.org/POSIX.html#FUNCTIONS ) because there may be 
format strings on the above mentioned page that are not portable.


Generally one would pass the results of calling localtime() to strftime eg:

	# The current time in dd.mm.yyyy format:
	use POSIX qw(strftime);

	print strftime("%d.%m.%Y", localtime());

If Date::Parse can't help you build this array, then you might want to 
have a look at Date::Manip.  Be aware that Date::Manip is much bigger 
and slower than the purpose built modules.

All the best,

     Jacinta