in reply to Re^11: Sybase BCP date formatter
in thread Sybase BCP date formatter

Ah... that's it. It was the wrap. Thank you so much. I changed the delimiter to ',' instead of '|' and it appears the result is correct. However, it converts the time "Jan 28 1997 9:53:22:610AM" to "1997-01-28 09:53:22.610". Is there a way to change the date this to "1 28 1997 9:53AM"?
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; { my %mons = qw( Jan 1 Feb 2 Mar 3 Apr 4 May 5 Jun 6 Jul 7 Aug 8 Sep + 9 Oct 10 Nov 11 Dec 12 ); my $mon_str = join '|', keys %mons; my $mon_re = qr/$mon_str/; sub fix_bcp_file { my ( $file ) = @_; local ( $^I, @ARGV ) = ( '', $file ); while ( <> ) { s/(^|\,)($mon_re)\s{1,2}(\d{1,2})\s(\d{4})\s\s?(\d\d?):(\d +\d):(\d\d):(\d{3})([AP])M(\,|$)/ $1 . sprintf( '%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d.%03d', $4, $mons{ $2 }, $3, ( $9 eq 'P' && $5 < 12) ? $5 + 12 : ( $9 eq 'A' && $5 +== 12 ) ? 0 : $5, $6, $7, $8 ) . $10 /eg; print; # UPDATED thanks runrig } } } for my $file (@ARGV) { fix_bcp_file($file); }
I have around 50 million lines to convert... Thanks so much for your patience and support guys! Robert

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Re^13: Sybase BCP date formatter
by Corion (Patriarch) on Dec 17, 2008 at 14:57 UTC

    I'm sure there is. What have you tried so far?

      I'm sure the change is made somewhere in the following part. I've tried this
      s/(^|\,)($mon_re)\s{1,2}(\d{1,2})\s(\d{4})\s\s?(\d\d?):(\d\d):(\ +d\d):(\d{3})([AP])M(\,|$)/ $1 . sprintf( '%04d %02d %02d %02d:%02d%03d',
      I can't figure out where the variable for (A/P)M get get loaded. In my mod the output shows the date as: ,1997 01 28 09:53022, I'm looking for ,1 28 1997 09:53AM,

        Read perlre and perlop about s/// and the /e switch. This will give you the information you need to find out where the variables $1 to $9 get loaded. Also, you might be interested in the strftime function of the POSIX module, which has convenient functions to create date/time strings. Even moreso, I recommend staying with the given format YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:SS instead of using something else.