I thought I'd revisit a question I asked on the CB a couple of days ago, where my problem was solved (thanks Coruscate, tye, Mr. Muskrat et al), but a thought remained...

My question concerned replacing $mon in localtime with three letter equivalents. I was using the simpleton's 

if ($mon == '00') {
$mon = "Jan";
}     elsif ...etc.

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and of course I was quickly shown that there were shorter (at least in typing) means of achieving it.

I thought it would be interesting if fellow monks could come up with ways of achieving this and giving as clear an explanation of what is going on inside their solution, so that the thread would become a sort of compendium on how to solve this type of problem.

Or that's what I'm hoping, anyway...:)

In reply to Replacing $mon with Jan, Feb, Mar by regex or other means by jonnyfolk

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