Picking values from timestamp

[sigurjon]

Dear sirs/madams

I am not sure whether or not this question has already been answered, but I am completely new to perl and my problem is as follows:

I have comma separated values in a text file, which I need to do some stuff with, and the data starts with a timestamp, i.e. on the form "2008-06-13 15:25:00" (the quote marks are part of the data). I need to fish the year, day, hour and minute from this timestamp as seperate integers. Does anyone have a solution how to do this?

Best regards, Sigurjon

[toolic]

Use a regular expression to extract the date and time into an array:

use strict; 
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my $s = "2008-06-13 15:25:00";
my @tokens = $s =~ /(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2}) (\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2})/;
print Dumper(\@tokens);

__END__

$VAR1 = [
          '2008',
          '06',
          '13',
          '15',
          '25',
          '00'
        ];

[sigurjon]

Thanks

Thank you for your post toolic.

Now I have an array of six integers, each representing one part of the timestamp. Can I refer to them individually like this: @tokens[0] (the year) and @tokens[1] (the month)? If not, how would I get them individually?

Best regards, Sigurjon

[toolic]

$tokens[0]

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[sigurjon]

Thanks again

Dear toolic.

I tried this solution and it worked perfectly. Problem solved.

Very many thanks to you for your advice!

Best wishes, Sigurjon