Hi Monks!

I am just trying to find a less code way to do this parsing using regular expressions.
In the first one I am getting a "1", why it cant be done this way.
It works on the second code, unless there is a more efficient way of doing it.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;


my $adate = "2017-01-29 11:30:07.370";
 
# more direct way, but returning a "1".
my $a_new_datetime = ( $adate =~ s/(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})\s(\d{2}):(\
+d{2})(.*)/$2-$3-$1 $4:$5/ );
print "\n 1 - $a_new_datetime\n\n";
  
my $new_datetime = $adate;
  
$new_datetime =~ s/(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})\s(\d{2}):(\d{2})(.*)/$2-$3-
+$1 $4:$5/;
  
print " 2 - $new_datetime\n\n";

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Thanks for looking at it!

In reply to Assigning a parsed date to a variable by Anonymous Monk

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