On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Jason Balicki wrote:
> > I've got a phone record that keeps the date and time > in the following format: > > YYMMDDHHMM > example: 0501201500 > > So, I've written the following to convert it to the > format: > > MM/DD/YYYY,HH:MM > example: 01/20/2005,15:00 You might want to try something like this -------------------------------------- #/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; # YYMMDDHHMM #example: 0501201500 # MM/DD/YYYY,HH:MM my $teledate='0501201500'; my($y, $m, $d, $h, $min) = unpack ("A2 A2 A2 A2 A2",$teledate); $y=$y+2000; print "$m/$d/$y,$h:$min\n"; ----------------------------------- Owen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>