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The strftime() function from POSIX might be what you need.

$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -MPOSIX=strftime -e '
my $mno = 0;
my %monthLookup = map { $_ => $mno ++ }
   qw{ Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec };

open my $inFH, q{<}, \ <<EOD or die $!;
1-Apr-2012,615265,2.4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00
2-Apr-2012,615265,2.4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00
3-Apr-2012,615265,2.4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,11.60,11.60,11.60,11.60,11.6
+0
EOD

while ( <$inFH> )
{
    my $date = ( split m{,} )[ 0 ];
    my( $d, $m, $y ) = split m{-}, $date;
    print strftime( qq{$date is day %j\n},
       0, 0, 0, $d, $monthLookup{ $m }, $y - 1900 );
}'
1-Apr-2012 is day 092
2-Apr-2012 is day 093
3-Apr-2012 is day 094
$
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I hope this is helpful.

Cheers,

JohnGG

In reply to Re: d-mmm-yyyy to DOY (day of year) by johngg
in thread d-mmm-yyyy to DOY (day of year) by Anonymous Monk

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