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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing date formats in Perl: i.e. Jul/10/2007 -> 20070710 (yyyymmdd) - Perl Post 302334827 by KevinADC on Thursday 16th of July 2009 03:12:31 PM
Old 07-16-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by akil
Hi ,
This script working for fine if pass script-name.sh Jul/10/2007 ,I want to pass 20070710(yyyymmdd) .Please any help it should be appereciated.

Code:
use Time::Local;

my $d = $ARGV[0];
my $t = $ARGV[1];
my $m = "";

@d = split /\//, $d;
@t = split /:/, $t;

if ( $d[0] eq "Jan" ) { $m = 0 }
elsif ( $d[0] eq "Feb" ) { $m = 1 }
elsif ( $d[0] eq "Mar" ) { $m = 2 }
elsif ( $d[0] eq "Apr" ) { $m = 3 }
elsif ( $d[0] eq "May" ) { $m = 4 }
elsif ( $d[0] eq "Jun" ) { $m = 5 }
elsif ( $d[0] eq "Jul" ) { $m = 6 }
elsif ( $d[0] eq "Aug" ) { $m = 7 }
elsif ( $d[0] eq "Sep" ) { $m = 8 }
elsif ( $d[0] eq "Oct" ) { $m = 9 }
elsif ( $d[0] eq "Nov" ) { $m = 10 }
elsif ( $d[0] eq "Dec" ) { $m = 11 };

$time = timelocal($t[2], $t[1], $t[0], $d[1], $m, $d[2]);

print "$time\n";usage :

Thank,
Akil
Are you passing one or two arguments to the script? You only mention YYYYMMDD but your code appears to be expecting two arguments:

Code:
my $d = $ARGV[0];
my $t = $ARGV[1];


Assuming two arguments, see if this helps:

Code:
use Time::Local;

my $d = $ARGV[0];
my $t = $ARGV[1];
my ($y, $m, $d) = unpack("A4A2A2",$d)
my ($h, $min, $s) = split(/:/,$t);
$time = timelocal($s, $min, $h, $d, $m-1, $y);

print "$time\n";usage :

 

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mhc(5)								File Formats Manual							    mhc(5)

NAME

       mhc - Message Harmonized Calendaring system

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly the mhc file format.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
       original program does not have a manual page.

FIELDS

       Mhc file format is based on STD11/RFC822: Standard for the format of ARPA Internet text messages.  In mhc file, the following extra  header
       fields are used.

       X-SC-Day:
	      Date of event in format yyyymmdd.  You can specify multiple date with space separated like:

		 X-SC-Day: 19990409 19990413

	      which means April 9th 1999 and April 13th 1999.

       X-SC-Time:
	      Time of event in format hh:mm-hh:mm or hh:mm.  For event which has no meanings about time, you can leave it empty in this field.

       X-SC-Duration:
	      Period  of event in yyyymmdd-yyyymmdd.  You can omit start date or end date, like "19991121-".  X-SC-Duration: is used only to limit
	      date specified by X-SC-Day: or X-SC-Cond, so you can't describe event date only by X-SC-Duration:.  If X-SC-Duration: is	empty,	it
	      means no limit.

       X-SC-Cond:
	      Condition of event date by using following keyword.

		 00-31 Day of month.

		 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Last Week in month.

		 Sun Mon ... Sat Day of week.

		 Jan Feb ... Dec Month

	      Examples,

		 X-SC-Cond: Tue Fri
			Every Tuesday and Friday.

		 X-SC-Cond: 31 Aug
			Every August 31th.

		 X-SC-Cond: 1st 3rd Fri
			Every 1st and 3rd Friday.

		 X-SC-Cond: Fri
		 X-SC-Day: !19990409
			Every Friday, but except April 9th 1999.

		 X-SC-Cond: Fri 13
			Every 13th and Every Friday, not 13th Friday.

       X-SC-Alarm:
	      Hint  for alarm of event.  Currently, mhc.el doesn't alaram, but gemcal will pop-up alarm window.  It will be useful if you transfer
	      this event to PalmOS.  In X-SC-Alarm:, you can specify the number (1 to 99) with suffix such as minute, hour or day.  For example,

		 X-SC-Alarm: 10 minutes
			Alarm 10 minutes before event.

		 X-SC-Alarm: 3 hour
			Alarm 3 hours before event.

		 X-SC-Alarm: 3 day
			Alarm 3 day before event.

       X-SC-Subject:
	      Subject of event. unstructured?

       X-SC-Location:
	      Location of event. unstructured?

       X-SC-Category
	      Category of event.  Any keyword, space separeated.  Case ignored.

       X-SC-Recoard-Id:
	      Internal use only.

SEE ALSO

       adb2mhc(1) gemcal(1), mhc-sync(1), mhc2palm(1), palm2mhc(1), today(1).

AUTHOR

       This program was written by Yoshinari Nomura <nom@quickhack.net> and this manual page was written by  Fumitoshi	UKAI  <ukai@debian.or.jp>,
       for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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