Well, first, take out the first 4 characters - that's the year. The next 2 characters are the month - make an array, 1 is January, 12 is December - then use that to convert to a month string.
Then the last two characters are the day. On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 08:12 -0500, Gomez, Juan wrote: > Hi all > > > I have a problem need to work with date > > I have a input like these : 20050829 and I need to change it to > something like this : Aug 29 2005 > > but it still eludes me how to do that > > can anyone help me please? > > > > > > thanks > > > Armando -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>