Re:^2 Help with a more precise regex

Actually, I won't be using date manipulations much. This is in a ClearQuest project I'm implementing, and all I need to know is that there are 8 hours in a day. The info gathered will be presented in days/hours.

And, unless I mis-remember, Date::Manip has compiled code, which would make it very difficult for me to place in cqperl (which is derived from ActiveState 5.6.0 perl). I can put in Perl only modules, but wouldn't want to hazzard puting in DLL's (or whatever is used on Windows).

Thanks for your input,
LogicalChaos

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Re: Re:^2 Help with a more precise regex by vladb (Vicar) on Apr 25, 2003 at 21:16 UTC
Although the solution I was proposing may not be precisely the one you were looking for; I thought it was worth noting for sake of others who might stumble on your post and wonder about alternative ways of doing this. It also appears simpler than the regexp way :) There should be absolutely no difficulty in getting Date::Manip to work with cqperl as the module "is written entirely in perl" (quote). Despite of the fact that it may increase the size of your final executable and/or also affect it's run-time speed, there is no other visible harm in using the module. As I had stated, it would be an overkill to use the module to simply decypher date and hour values from the sample input you provided. Nontheless, it does appear cleaner than using raw regexp ;) _____________________ `# Under Construction` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re:^4 Help with a more precise regex by LogicalChaos (Beadle) on Apr 25, 2003 at 22:42 UTC
I guess you are saying I mis-remembered... Is that what your're saying? I was thinking of Date::Calc. And I do thank you for your information. All information is good information, especially when I didn't know it previously. Cheers, LogicalChaos	[reply]