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A simple unpack would do the trick: 
my ($year, $month, $day, $hour) = unpack("a4a2a2a2", '2008032017');

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Re^2: Parse YYYYMMDDHH string
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 21, 2008 at 00:01 UTC
    Cool! Thanks for both suggestions.
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