Posted by John Dunlop on 11/29/07 08:47

Jason Carlton:

> I'm sure this is an easy one, but I can't seem to find it! I have the
> date and time as:
>
> # Nov 28, 2007, 11:11:14pm
> $timestamp = 20071128231114;
>
> In Perl, I would split this up as:
>
> my ($year, $month, $day, $hr, $min, $sec) = $timestamp =~ /(\d{4})(\d
> \d)(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)/;

The preg_* functions take Perl-compatible regular expressions.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php

--
Jock

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