i'm new to Perl and i want to rename various files on a directory with a string found on the file.

- The string that i want to use can be found on the 2nd line of each file which has a long date format (e.g. January 1, 2002, etc..).

- I want to be able to convert the string to YYYYMMDD and append it on the beginning of each file names that i want to rename.

example: abc001 will be renamed as 20020105-abc001

where abc001 is the old filename and 2002 as the year, 01 as the month and 05 as the day and append it on the beginning of the current file.

Thanks

In reply to Converting Date to String by ed3rick

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