Manipulate Month from string to number

[TanyaB]

Hi all,
Question:

In my script, i get the file's creation month in locale's abbreviated month name format ( as 'date +%b' in unix - Jan, Feb and so on);
what's the easiest way to convert it to month's number?
thanks in advnce.

 

[ishnid]

Easiest way's probably just to construct a hash (though there's probably a module that'll do it:

my %months;

@months{ qw/Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec/ } = 1 .. 12;

my $month_name = 'Feb';
my $month_number = $months{ $month_name };

 

[TanyaB]

Thanks!
Actually, i was trying with all this localtime and timelocals... but this is actually much easier
thanks!