Hi, I am new to Perl. I've got a task to convert a given time (e.g, 6 minutes 30 secs or 24 secs 50 millisecs) completely in seconds. Can you please let me know the approach to do this?

I've worked a bit with unix shell scripting. The problem here I see is that we've environmental variables for time in unix/perl so we cannot declare a variable and store a time into it (time in this specific format: 3min 55s, 4s 230ms ).

I've this "time" printed in the logs which I need to display in "seconds". Now, I can do it in another way like extracting this particular time as a string from the logs (string for example: processing completed in 7s 155ms.) and then operate on it. What I wanted to know is that is there any perl function to simplify this process.

In reply to Convert time into seconds by Lucifer

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