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how to change the date format of all my htmls? robertchen117@gmail.com 06-07-2008
Posted by robertchen117@gmail.com on June 7, 2008, 11:31 pm
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 I have many html files in my directory, I want to change all date with
dd/mm/yy format to /mm/dd/yyyy in the files.

Please let me know how to do it in perl...

thanks

Posted by RedGrittyBrick on June 8, 2008, 8:26 am
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 robertchen117@gmail.com wrote:
> I have many html files in my directory, I want to change all date with
> dd/mm/yy format to /mm/dd/yyyy in the files.
>
> Please let me know how to do it in perl...
>
> thanks

On Unix something like
perl -p -i -e 's|(\d\d)/(\d\d)/(\d\d)|"$2/$1/".($3<50?20:19).$3|eg' \ *.html

As I expect you know, on MS Windows you have to use -e'' instead of -e""
which means I usually change the inner "foo" to qq(foo).

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Posted by Tad J McClellan on June 8, 2008, 10:21 am
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> I have many html files in my directory, I want to change all date with
> dd/mm/yy format to /mm/dd/yyyy in the files.


Should 01/01/01 result in 01/01/1801 or 01/01/1901 or 01/01/2001 or ...


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Posted by Gunnar Hjalmarsson on June 8, 2008, 10:55 am
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robertchen117@gmail.com wrote:
> I have many html files in my directory, I want to change all date with
> dd/mm/yy format to /mm/dd/yyyy in the files.

Wouldn't it be better to change them to the non-ambiguous international
standard format yyyy-mm-dd

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