in reply to Re^6: Sybase BCP date formatter
in thread Sybase BCP date formatter

weird. what does /usr/bin/perl -v say (and the first line is #!/usr/bin/perl and not "##", right)? And to change to comma delimited, change instances of \|(backslash pipe) to just ,(comma) in the s/.../.../ statement.

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Re^8: Sybase BCP date formatter
by LangeNet (Initiate) on Dec 16, 2008 at 21:34 UTC
    This is the first time I used this forum and to keep the code and stuff looking clean. I include "##</code><code>##". So my first line is correct and has #!/usr/bin/perl. perl -v returns This is perl, v5.8.0 built for alpha-dec_osf... Does the rest of the code look ok? Thanks again, Robert
      Yes the code you pasted looks ok. I don't see any "+==" on line 22 though, so the error does not make any sense. Are you sure it's copy/pasted correctly (maybe start over again)? And just wrap code in <code></code> tags around here.
        I've included the code from my vi session with numbering turned on. Looks like it continues from line 22 to line 23.
        1 #!/usr/bin/perl 2 3 use strict; 4 use warnings; 5 6 { my %mons = qw( Jan 1 Feb 2 Mar 3 Apr 4 May 5 Jun 6 Jul 7 A +ug 8 Sep 7 + 9 Oct 10 Nov 11 Dec 12 ); 8 my $mon_str = join '|', keys %mons; 9 my $mon_re = qr/$mon_str/; 10 11 sub fix_bcp_file { 12 my ( $file ) = @_; 13 local ( $^I, @ARGV ) = ( '', $file ); 14 while ( <> ) { 15 s/(^|\,)($mon_re)\s{1,2}(\d{1,2})\s(\d{4})\s\s?(\d +\d?):(\d 16 +\d):(\d\d):(\d{3})([AP])M(\,|$)/ 17 $1 . 18 sprintf( '%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d.%03d', 19 $4, 20 $mons{ $2 }, 21 $3, 22 ( $9 eq 'P' && $5 < 12) ? $5 + 12 : ( $9 eq 'A +' && $5 23 +== 12 ) ? 0 : $5, 24 $6, 25 $7, 26 $8 ) . 27 $10 28 /eg; 29 print; # UPDATED thanks runrig 30 } 31 } 32 } 33 for my $file (@ARGV) { 34 fix_bcp_file($file); 35 } 36
        Any ideas? Rob