manorhce has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I am getting issue with Time::Piece module the error is like garbage at end of string in strptime: 2 at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/Time/Piece.pm line 470. garbage at end of string in strptime: 2 at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/Time/Piece.pm line 470. garbage at end of string in strptime: 2 at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/Time/Piece.pm line 470.

Inside the module the 470 line is like below

466 sub strptime {
467     my $time = shift;
468     my $string = shift;
469     my $format = @_ ? shift(@_) : "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z";
470     my @vals = _strptime($string, $format);
471 #    warn(sprintf("got vals: %d-%d-%d %d:%d:%d\n", reverse(@vals))
+);
472     return scalar $time->_mktime(\@vals, (ref($time) ? $time->[c_i
+slocal] : 0));
473 }

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Re: garbage at end of string in strptime
by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Feb 16, 2013 at 03:39 UTC
    The error message is telling you exactly what the error is: you have an extra 2 that it can't format. For example, an example with garbage 2: 
    #!/usr/bin/perl -l

use strict;
use warnings;
use Time::Piece;

my $time = Time::Piece->strptime(
    "2013-02-15 19:07:292", 
    "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S");
print $time;

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    Now without the extra 2: 
    #!/usr/bin/perl -l

use strict;
use warnings;
use Time::Piece;

my $time = Time::Piece->strptime(
    "2013-02-15 19:07:29", 
    "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S");
print $time;

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    Does that help? If not, please post your code, and we'll go from there.
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Re: garbage at end of string in strptime
by fishmonger (Chaplain) on Feb 15, 2013 at 19:43 UTC

    I suspect that the problem is with the data you're passing to strptime() not the sub itself.

    Can you post your code?

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Re: garbage at end of string in strptime
by aitap (Curate) on Feb 15, 2013 at 19:41 UTC
    Well, perhaps the problem is with the $string you supplied to the strptime sub as the 2nd argument? It's hard to tell while you didn't provide any of your code.
    Sorry if my advice was wrong.
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Re: garbage at end of string in strptime
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 15, 2013 at 17:56 UTC

    Inside the module the 470 line is like below

    Sorry, but that doesn't help. We need code to reproduce the error message, not code where the error occurs

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Re: garbage at end of string in strptime
by manorhce (Beadle) on Feb 16, 2013 at 07:33 UTC

    Apologies for the delay of code. My code is like 

    my $last_executed =  $time_file . ".txt";
return 1 unless (-e $last_executed);

open(IN, '<' . $last_executed);
my $time = <IN>;
close(IN);

my $valid_time = $time;
return 1 if ( $valid_time !~ m/(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})(?:T)?(\d{2}):(\
+d{2})/gi );

my ($year, $month, $day, $hour, $min) = $time =~ m#(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d
+{2})(?:T)?(\d{2}):(\d{2})#gi;
my $dt1 = DateTime->new ( year => $year, month => $month, day => $day,
+hour => $hour, minute => $min);
my $time2 = localtime->datetime;
my ($year2, $month2, $day2, $hour2, $min2) = $time2 =~ m#(\d{4})-(\d{2
+})-(\d{2})(?:T)?(\d{2}):(\d{2})#gi;
my $dt2 = DateTime->new ( year => $year2, month => $month2, day => $da
+y2,hour => $hour2, minute => $min2);

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      What happened to Time::Piece:-). In general, it would be better to use a DateTime::Format::Strptime class like this: 
      #!/usr/bin/perl -l

use strict;
use warnings;
use DateTime::Format::Strptime qw();

my $format = DateTime::Format::Strptime->new(
    pattern   => '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S',
    time_zone => 'local',
    on_error  => 'croak',
);

my $ts1 = '2012-02-15 00:00:00';
my $dt1 = $format->parse_datetime($ts1);
$dt1->add(
    hours  => 3, 
    minutes => 56, 
    seconds => 53,
);
print $format->format_datetime($dt1);

my $ts2 = '2012-02-15 00:00:00';;
my $dt2 = $format->parse_datetime($ts2);
$dt2->add(
    years   => 1,
    hours   => 4,
    minutes => 27,
    seconds => 25,
);
print $format->format_datetime($dt2);

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