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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Required help in perl regular expression substitution for this date format Post 302534112 by sarbjit on Monday 27th of June 2011 03:51:33 AM
Old 06-27-2011
Error Required help in perl regular expression substitution for this date format
Hi,

I have written a small perl script to handle particular date format using perl, but it is not substituting the whole string. Can some one please check on what is the issue with the code.

Code:
$_ = "Date: November 25, 2010  09:02:01 PM";
if(s/\(January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December\) *[0-3]*[0-9], *[0-9]*[0-9][0-9] *[0-2]?[0-9]:[0-5][0-9]:[0-5][0-9]\(\.[0-9][0-9]\)? *[AP]M/DATE***/g) {
$flag = 1;
print "Done";
print $_;
}

It is giving the following output:
DoneDate: DATE*** 25, 2010 09:02:01 PM

I want whole of this date to be substituted with DATE***
 

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dm_date

DM_DATE(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						DM_DATE(1)

NAME

       dm_date - print out the system date and time

SYNOPSIS

       This performs the same operation as the unix 'date' command, but using the Date::Manip module.

	  dm_date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]

DESCRIPTION

       This displays information about the current system time, or some other time. Options are:

       -h, --help
	   Print online help.

       -d STRING, --date=STRING
	   Display time described by STRING. STRING can be any string which can be parsed by Date::Manip.  Please refer to the Date::Manip::Date
	   documentation for details.

       -f DATEFILE, --file=DATEFILE
	   This reads each line in DATEFILE, and extracts a date from it and prints out the information.

	   Blank lines and lines starting with a pound (#) are ignored. Lines not containing a valid date are also ignored.

       -r FILE, --reference=FILE
	   Displays the last modification time of FILE.

       -R, --rfc-2822
	   Displayc the date and time in RFC 2822 format.

	   Example: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:34:56 -0600

       -u, --utc, --universal
	   Converts the date to UT (GMT) and prints out the information.

       Only one of -d, -f, or -r should be included. If more than one is included, the first one from the list (-d, -f, -r) is used and any other
       is ignored.

       The format string starts with a plus (+) and contains any of the format directives described in Date::Manip::Date.

KNOWN BUGS

       None known.

BUGS AND QUESTIONS

       Please refer to the Date::Manip::Problems documentation for information on submitting bug reports or questions to the author.

SEE ALSO

       Date::Manip::Date

LICENSE

       This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

       Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org)

perl v5.16.3							    2014-06-09								DM_DATE(1)
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