Re: [Omaha.pm] printf("%02d", "2007")

[Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>]

On Apr 24, 2007, at 3:42 PM, Jay Hannah wrote:

> unless ($a[0] =~ /^\w\w\w \d\d \d\d\d\d/) {
>    die "Unrecognized date format from MS-SQL: '$a[0]'";
> }
> @b=split ' ',$a[0];

Funny that they match a pattern, and then do the split.  Better to do:

unless ( @b = ($a[0] =~ /^(\w{3}) (\d{2}) (\d{4})/ ) {
	die...
}

Then @b is populated.

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