Dear Monks,

I have a bunch of dates in this format: 01-30 22:10

I want to sort them, so I did this: 

#!/usr/bin/perl 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Date::Manip;

Date_Init("TZ=EST5EDT");

my @dates = (
    '01-30 22:10',
    '01-12 05:56',
    '01-24 01:42',
    '01-12 05:59',
    '01-31 01:33',
    '01-02 01:33'
);


foreach my $date (@dates) {
    $date =~ s/^\s+//; #remove leading space 
    $date =~ s/\s+$//; #remove trailing space
    $date =~ s/\s/\/09 /; #add the year
    $date =~ s/-/\//; #change - to /
    $date = ParseDate($date);
}


@dates = sort { Date_Cmp($a, $b) } @dates;    

for (@dates) {
       print $_, "\n";
}

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That seems to work, but I'm wondering if there is a less clunky approach.

Thanks,

zod

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