On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Chris Knipe <sav...@savage.za.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > > > I have the odd (very rare) case where I am given a date in an incorrect > format. I already use Date::Parse to convert the dates to a unix timestamp, > and it’s working incredibly well. However, on the rare case that I get > incorrect dates, Date::Parse does not like them either and errors out. The > formats in question that I can’t parse basically looks like > > > > Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:06:48+0400 > > > > Note the lack of a space between the seconds and the timezone. > > > > Is there a simple quick way to fix that by means of a regex?
Depends on the data, of course. This might do the trick: s/[0-9]\K\+/ +/ Or in maintainable form: s< [0-9] # A digit.. \K # (do not touch anything before this when replacing) \+ # ...followed by a plus sign >< +>x; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
