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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to change variable length field? Post 302816359 by sonnyo916 on Monday 3rd of June 2013 05:16:10 PM
Old 06-03-2013
Input is 7/10/2012 19:21 or 7/10/2012 1:01 or 7/1/2012 23:59 or 7/1/2012 1:01

Want it to be 7/10/2012

Fields may be 11/10/2012 01:01 but still need to be 11/10/2012.
 

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Biber::Input::file::ris(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			      Biber::Input::file::ris(3pm)

   extract_entries
	  Main data extraction routine.
	  Accepts a data source identifier (filename in this case),
	  preprocesses the file and then looks for the passed keys,
	  creating entries when it finds them and passes out an
	  array of keys it didn't find.

   create_entry
	  Create a Biber::Entry object from an entry found in a RIS data source

NAME
Biber::Input::file::ris - look in a RIS file for an entry and create it if found DESCRIPTION
Provides the extract_entries() method to get entries from a RIS data source and instantiate Biber::Entry objects for what it finds AUTHOR
Francois Charette, "<firmicus at ankabut.net>" Philip Kime "<philip at kime.org.uk>" BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests on our sourceforge tracker at <https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=browse&group_id=228270>. COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE Copyright 2009-2012 Francois Charette and Philip Kime, all rights reserved. This module is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. perl v5.14.2 2012-06-17 Biber::Input::file::ris(3pm)
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