This is a Regexp::Common plugin that provides regular expressions for parsing dates and times. It can handle most date formats, such as:
y/m/d m/d/y d/m/y
2005/04/02 4/2/2005 2/4/05
05.04.02 04.02.05 02.04.2005
2005 April 2 April 2, 2005 2 APR 05
05APRIL02 APR022005 02 April 2005
20050402 040205 02042005
ISO 8601 RFC 2822
2008-05-24T21:46:01 25 May 2008 21:46:01 +0500
It can also handle time formats like:
9:03:27pm
21:03:27
9:03 p.m.
21:03
9:03a
Furthermore, you can easily piece together time and date component patterns (in the style of Time::Format or POSIX's strftime) to build arbitrarily complex custom regexes that can parse just about any time or date pattern imaginable.
INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Build.PL
perl Build
perl Build test
perl Build install
If you do not have Module::Build, you can use the older steps:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
On Windows, you will need to use nmake instead of make.
DEPENDENCIES
This module requires this other modules and libraries:
Regexp::Common
POSIX
I18N::Langinfo (optional, but needed for internationalization)
Also, Time::Normalize is likely to be useful to you.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Eric J. Roode, roode @ cpan . org
Copyright (c) 2005-2008 by Eric J. Roode. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; See the copyright notice in the module source code for full details.
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