Using a hash to look up for the months, the values for the keys are the order of the months in the calendar while the keys are each month's name ...
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my %monthsOrder;
@monthsOrder{qw(Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept oct Nov Dec)}=1..
+12;
#provide a list of dates to convert
my @dates = ('Nov-07', 'Aug-09', 'Jul-01', 'Feb-02');
foreach my $element (@dates){
my ($month, $year)= $element=~/(\w+)-(\d+)/;
print convertMonth($month, $year),"\n";
}
sub convertMonth{
my ($month, $year) = @_;
for my $key(keys %monthsOrder){
return "20$year/$monthsOrder{$key} " if $month eq $key;
}
}
Output:
2007/11
2009/8
2001/7
2002/2
Updated to account for passing an array of different dates..
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