Reg expression on day

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Re: Reg expression on day by Thelonius (Priest) on Dec 23, 2003 at 16:59 UTC
That would delete the date entirely. Here's one that would work: `s!^(\d+/)0(\d/\d{4})!$1$2!;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Reg expression on day by Anonymous Monk on Dec 23, 2003 at 17:28 UTC
Thank you!	[reply]
Re: Reg expression on day by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Dec 23, 2003 at 17:19 UTC
`s!/0!/!` Update: To remove all leading zeroes (day, month, and year): `s/\b0//g` The PerlMonk `tr///` Advocate	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Reg expression on day by flounder99 (Friar) on Dec 23, 2003 at 17:59 UTC
If you only want to get rid of the leading zero on the day this would work: `s!/0?(\d+)/!/$1/!` [download] If you want to get rid of the leading zeros on both the month and the day this would work: `s!0?(\d+)/0?(\d+)!$1/$2!` [download] use strict; for ('12/09/2003', '12/10/2003', '01/01/2004') { my $date = $_; print "Before: $date\n"; $date =~ s!/0?(\d+)/!/$1/!; print "Leading zero off of day: $date\n"; $date = $_; $date =~ s!0?(\d+)/0?(\d+)!$1/$2!; print "Leading zero off of month and day: $date\n\n"; } __END__ Before: 12/09/2003 Leading zero off of day: 12/9/2003 Leading zero off of month and day: 12/9/2003 Before: 12/10/2003 Leading zero off of day: 12/10/2003 Leading zero off of month and day: 12/10/2003 Before: 01/01/2004 Leading zero off of day: 01/1/2004 Leading zero off of month and day: 1/1/2004 [download] -- flounder	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Reg expression on day by boo_radley (Parson) on Dec 23, 2003 at 18:29 UTC
you can replace `$date =~ s!0?(\d+)/0?(\d+)!$1/$2!;` [download] with `$date =~ s!0?(\d+/)!$1!g;` [download] for month and day.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Reg expression on day by Paulster2 (Priest) on Dec 23, 2003 at 17:55 UTC
An alternate way of doing this might be to break out your MM/DD/YYYY into seperate chunks (ie $MM = month, $DD = day, and $YYYY = year), then take the day variable and add zero to it. Then put it all back together again. This way you could manipulate the date if you needed to. `($MM, $DD, $YYYY) = split(/,"$date"); $MM=$MM+0; $DD=$DD+0; $date=$MM."/".$DD."/".$YYYY;` [download] Please forgive me if my `split` syntax is incorrect. I don't have an example in front of me. Anyway, I am just providing an alternate methodry. Although if you absolutely need to use a regex or want to get better at using them, this definitely won't help you! Have fun! UPDATE: Thanks flounder99 for the correction, I thought that I was missing something! Paulster2	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Reg expression on day by flounder99 (Friar) on Dec 23, 2003 at 18:04 UTC
Please forgive me if my split syntax is incorrect All you need is to quote your slash: `split('/',"$date")` [download] I was thinking of something similar: `s!(\d+)/(\d+)!($1+0).'/'.($2+0)!e` [download] -- flounder	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Reg expression on day by trammell (Priest) on Dec 23, 2003 at 18:09 UTC
Sure, and it cleans up a bit: `$date = join "/", map $_+0, split m[/], $date;` Not sure if I like the idea of stripping those zeroes though. Probably better to store the date in a saner format (Epoch seconds maybe?), then use POSIX::strftime() to generate the desired date format.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Reg expression on day by jbware (Chaplain) on Dec 23, 2003 at 18:40 UTC
Here's another way to do it, and it works for leading zeros on month and day. `s\|0(\d)/\|$1/\|g;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Reg expression on day by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Dec 23, 2003 at 18:43 UTC
Or more simply: `s!\b0!!g`. The PerlMonk `tr///` Advocate	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Reg expression on day by Anonymous Monk on Dec 23, 2003 at 19:07 UTC
Again, thanks for all the input!	[reply]
Re: Reg expression on day by Art_XIV (Hermit) on Dec 23, 2003 at 20:57 UTC
Here's a way that makes gratuitous use of map! ;) `use strict; while (<DATA>) { chomp; my $val = join '/', map {$_ + 0} (split /\//, $_); print "$val\n"; } __DATA__ 12/09/2004 01/15/2003 03/09/2004 10/28/2002 004/00003/02003` [download] Isn't Perl wonderful? Hanlon's Razor - "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Reg expression on day by delirium (Chaplain) on Dec 24, 2003 at 13:21 UTC
Since this is already getting out of hand.... `substr($_,3,2) += 0;` This will work only if the month always has two digits.	[reply] [d/l]


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