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Post 76391 by vino on Tuesday 28th of June 2005 06:23:18 AM
06-28-2005
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Quote:
Originally Posted by penfold
Firstly - aplogies to Vino
No ill-feelings from my side. And I hope none from yours too.
Just letting you know on the rules that are followed in the forum.
Quote:
Originally Posted by penfold
I need to check wether or not a variable called DATE is actually a date by doing the following - checking it is all numeric and secondly checking if it is 8 digits long.
Any help appreciated
Any help appreciated
Code:
echo $DATE | sed -n -e '/^[0-9]\{8\}$/p'Vino
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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
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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)