in reply to Custom date string formatting

You were very close to an answer. You just needed to capture the time part in fourth set of parenthesis and then toss it by not referring to it.
Assuming that there's always just one space between the date and the time:

$date =~ s/(\d{4})\-(\d{2})\-(\d{2})(\s.+)/$3\.$2\.$1/;

non-Perl: Andy Ford

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Re^2: Custom date string formatting
by nelio (Novice) on Feb 01, 2007 at 14:04 UTC
    Yep, it really did'nt occur to me at the time. That's a clean regex solution.
    Thanks