Using kcott's Time::Piece built-in module suggestion, consider the following:

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

<> =~ /([^,]+)/
  and my $dir = Time::Piece->strptime( "$1 2013", '%b %d %H:%M %Y' )->
+mdy('')
  or die "Unable to capture date string.";

if ( !-e $dir ) {
    mkdir $dir or die "Unable to create directory $dir: $!";
    print "Created dir: $dir\n";
}
else {
    print "Directory $dir already exists.\n";
}

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Usage: perl inFile

Since the date doesn't contain the year, that's hard coded. The in-line <> notation (short for <ARGV>) gets the first line of the file sent to the script. Next, a regex is used to capture that first line's date information (held in $1), and the date/year information is used by Time::Piece to return a 'mmddyyyy' string for the directory name. Finally, mkdir is used to create the directory if it doesn't already exist ( !-e $dir ).

Hope this helps!

In reply to Re^3: Convert date into day and month by Kenosis
in thread Convert date into day and month by Ma

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