POSIX::strptime(3)

NAME
POSIX::strptime - Perl extension to the POSIX date parsing strptime(3) function

SYNOPSIS
 ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst) = POSIX::strptime("string", "Format");

DESCRIPTION
Perl interface to strptime(3)

FUNCTIONS

strptime
     ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday) = POSIX::strptime(string, format);

    The result for any value not extracted is not defined. Some platforms may reliably return "undef", but this is dependent on the strptime(3) function in the underlying C library.

    For example, only the following fields may be relied upon:

     my ($min, $hour) = ( POSIX::strptime( "01:23", '%H:%M' ) )[1,2];

     my ($mday, $mon, $year) = ( POSIX::strptime( "2010/07/16", '%Y/%m/%d' ) )[3,4,5];

    Furthermore, not all platforms will set the $wday and $yday elements. If these values are required, use "mktime" and "gmtime":

     use POSIX qw( mktime );
     use POSIX::strptime qw( strptime );

     my ($mday, $mon, $year) = ( POSIX::strptime( "2010/07/16", '%Y/%m/%d' ) )[3,4,5];
     my $wday = ( gmtime mktime 0, 0, 0, $mday, $mon, $year )[6];

SEE ALSO
strptime(3)

AUTHOR
Philippe M. Chiasson <gozer@cpan.org> Kim Scheibel <kim@scheibel.co.uk>

REPOSITORY
http://svn.ectoplasm.org/projects/perl/POSIX-strptime/trunk/

COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2005 by Philippe M. Chiasson <gozer@cpan.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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