Date Format Test and Taging.

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

Hello:

I am a beginer with perl and just trying different things. Here is my question where all you unselfish experts may be able to help. I am going through a text file which has following contents:

2002-10-28 is today, 28-10-2001 was a year ago.

I want to verify that the date is valid. I wish to do the same for a few different formats such as:

Wednesday, November 6, 2002

November 6, 2002

06/11/02

06.11.2002

6 November 2002

6-Nov-02

(there are many more but once guided I think i should be able to get the rest) Once verified I want to output this (simply into an output txt file):

<date>2002-10-28</date> is today, <date>28-10-2001</date> was a year ago.

Hope someone will be able to help me with this. Thank you again to everyone for any advice or help.

Vince

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Re: Date Format Test and Taging. by Enlil (Parson) on Nov 06, 2002 at 06:17 UTC
Try Parsedate function in Date::Manip. Particularly, look at the first example. -enlil	[reply]