[sf-perl] Perl's to_date() equivalent

David Fetter david at fetter.org
Fri Aug 25 09:56:34 PDT 2006


On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 09:49:59AM -0700, Loo, Peter # PHX wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> I was wondering if there is such a Perl module that I can use to
> calculate dates like the to_date() in Oracle.  For example:
> 
> select (to_date('2006-03-05', 'YYYY-MM-DD') + 30) from dual;

Try Date::Manip from CPAN :)  It's not the fastest date munging
library there, but it's very flexible.

Cheers,
D
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