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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting strange file format processing Post 302471722 by etl_guy on Sunday 14th of November 2010 10:40:28 PM
Old 11-14-2010
strange file format processing
hi
i have file (a metadata type file ) in this format
Code:
 
record
string("|") isxml ;
string("|") billing_type ;
string("|") billing_type_desc ;
string("|") ods_create_date ;
string("|") ods_update_date ;
string("|") event_key ;
string("|") target_pid ;
string("|") open_date ;
string("|") close_date ;
end

I want the output where the lines with date in it to be changed to
string("|") to date("YYYY-MM-DD")
so output will be
Code:
 
record
string("|") isxml ;
string("|") billing_type ;
string("|") billing_type_desc ;
date("YYYY-MM-DD") ods_create_date ;
date("YYYY-MM-DD") ods_update_date ;
string("|") event_key ;
string("|") target_pid ;
date("YYYY-MM-DD") open_date ;
date("YYYY-MM-DD") close_date ;
end

Last edited by Scott; 11-15-2010 at 02:53 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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netsds::util::datetime

NetSDS::Util::DateTime(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			       NetSDS::Util::DateTime(3pm)

NAME

       NetSDS::Util::DateTime - common date/time processing routines

SYNOPSIS

	       use NetSDS::Util::DateTime;

	       print "Current date: " . date_now();

DESCRIPTION

       This package provides set of routines for date and time processing.

EXPORTED FUNCTIONS

       date_now_array([TIME])
	   Returns array of date items for given date.	If source date is not set current date used.

       date_now([TIME])
	   Return [given] date as string.

	       2001-12-23 14:39:53

       date_now_iso8601([TIME])
	   Return date as ISO 8601 string.

	       20011223T14:39:53Z

	   <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601> http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime <http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime>

       date_strip(DATE)
	   Trim miliseconds from date.

       date_date(DATE)
	   Trim time part from date.

       date_time(DATE)
	   Trim date part from date.

       time_from_string($string)
	   Return parsed date/time structure.

       date_from_string($string)
	   Return date from string representation.

       date_inc([INCREMENT, [TIME]])
	   Return date incremented with given number of seconds.

       date_inc_string([INCREMENT, [TIME]])
	   Return string representation of date incremented with given number of seconds.

EXAMPLES

       None yet

BUGS

       Unknown yet

SEE ALSO

       Date::Parse, Date::Format

TODO

       Import stuff from Wono project

AUTHOR

       Valentyn Solomko <val@pere.org.ua>

       Michael Bochkaryov <misha@rattler.kiev.ua>

perl v5.12.4							    2011-08-27					       NetSDS::Util::DateTime(3pm)
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