[prog] Dates in Perl

Jacinta Richardson jarich at perltraining.com.au
Thu Aug 21 20:21:18 EST 2003


On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Dan Richter wrote:

> 
> >There's Date::Manip.  That's pretty good.
> 
> I tried loading that and it spewed a few hundred lines of "Malformed UTF8 
> character" errors. (This is on a Red Hat system configured to speak French, 
> and sometimes the accented characters don't work very well.) Any other 
> ideas? I'm all for quick-and-dirty in this case.

I haven't ever had a system as you've described so I can't comment.  You
may have needed to recompile it if you're running Perl 5.8. 

> By the way, where did you find that module? I usually look on CPAN and here:
>     http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/lib.html
> But I didn't see it in either place.

http://search.cpan.org

Search for Date::Manip.

It comes up first.

Other modules that come up that might help are:
	Date::Transform
	Time::Format
	Date::Parse
	Date::Format

Maybe one of these will help you.  Date::Manip the certainly the most
popular one though.

	Jacinta

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