Ah yeah. Here's one of my own crimes. A quick&dirty way to allow for relative timestamps.

sub parseWebdate {
    my ($str) = @_;

    if($str =~ /^([+-])(\d+)(\w)/) {
        my %multipliers = (
            s   => 1,
            m   => 60,
            h   => 60*60,
            d   => 60*60*24,
            W   => 60*60*24*7,
            M   => 60*60*24*30,
            y   => 60*60*24*365,
        );
        my ($direction, $amount, $multiplier) = ($1, $2, $3);
        if(!defined($multipliers{$multiplier})) {
            croak("Undefined delta time multiplier $multiplier");
        }
        if($direction eq '-') {
            $amount = $amount * -1;
        }
        return time() + ($amount * $multipliers{$multiplier});
    }

    # normal time string
    return str2time($str);
}

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When i wrote that, i told myself "It's only temporary, i'll clean it up next week". So far, it has been about 624 weeks on my Todo list and still going strong.

perl -e 'use Crypt::Digest::SHA256 qw[sha256_hex]; print substr(sha256_hex("the Answer To Life, The Universe And Everything"), 6, 2), "\n";'

In reply to Re: Legacy Code by cavac
in thread Legacy Code by GotToBTru

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