> If I have a string, for examle: $date = "06072002";
> How could I separate this in to three separate vars so that $mon=06,
> $day=07 and $year=2002.
What do you have? You have two digits, and two digits, and four digits.
In regex talk, that looks like this:
/(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d\d\d)/
or
/(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{4})/
If that's the entire string, you'll want to use anchors to make sure
that you don't accidentally match things you shouldn't:
/^(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d\d\d)$/
So to put it together:
my $date = "06072002";
$date =~ /^(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d\d\d)$/
or die "This doesn't look like a date: $date";
my ($month,$day,$year) = ($1,$2,$3);
xoxo,
Andy
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