Thank you both very much, Mr. Fowler and Mr. Shevek.
The use of a third-party module raises a new problem: there is any way to
automate the installation of pre-requisite libraries on a system? I wanna
end up with a script that the operator just runs before publishing the new
scripts on the production system, and that is able to install all libraries.
I have a connection to the internet and think on something like
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;
use CPAN;
install qw/ Some::Module And::Another::One Time::Parse DateTime /;
__END__
Will this work as I think? Anybody have any suggestions?
Thank you all very much for you help!
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Luis Campos de Carvalho
Computer Scientist
OCP DBA Oracle & Senior Unix Sys Admin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: REGEXP Hell
> Shevek wrote:
>
> > I won't recommend a date module, other people will. Look on CPAN at
> > search.cpan.org. Search for Date.
>
> Or Time. Goodness, I can't wait for DateTime to be sorted out :-).
>
> Date::Parse is really friendly and will automatically parse most dates the
> way you want to without any effort on your part:
>
> use Date::Parse
> my $time = str2time($date); # automatically recognises most formats
>
> If you want more control over exactly the parsing is done, the kind of
> thing that you might use the unix strptime function for, see Time::Piece:
>
> use Time::Piece;
> my $time = Time::Piece->strptime($string, $format);
>
> Where $format is a standard strptime string (see the strptime man page on
> your system)
>
> There are lots of other modules on CPAN that can also help you. As Shevek
> pointed out, There's More Than One Way To Do It.
>
> Mark.
