in reply to date to epoch

If you use Date::Calc, you could use the function Mktime for this (after splitting your string, e.g. using a regex). 
$time = Mktime($year,$month,$day, $hour,$min,$sec);

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Re^2: date to epoch
by Renjith777 (Initiate) on Nov 15, 2011 at 09:09 UTC
    I am new to perl.. Could you please give me a sample code ?

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                       # assumption: yyyymmddhhmmss
$date =~ /(....)(..)(..)(..)(..)(..)/;

my $year  = $1;
my $month = $2;
...
my $sec   = $6;

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      However consider using character-classes (e.g. \d for a digit) and checking if $date is really in in the expected format instead of this "quick and dirty" solution.
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        I tired this one and got following error Can't locate Date/Calc.pm in @INC (@INC contains: D:/strawberry/perl/site/lib D:/strawberry/perl/vendor/lib D:/strawberry/perl/lib .)

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