Posted by taps128 on 11/29/07 09:50

Jason Carlton wrote:
>> I think you don't have a timestamp in the true sense, I think your
>> $timestamp variables shows an unformated date '2007-11-28 23:11:14'.
>>
>> Which is what you looked for in your regular expression in perl, i think.
> <snip>
>
> I guess it's usually called a "datetime" instead of a "timestamp". I
> didn't know that until I started researching it tonight, though.
>
> You're correct, the format I have doesn't have any delimiters, it's
> just a series of 14 numbers. I have been using substr, like you
> suggested, but since the format I used in Perl was a lot faster than
> the Perl version of substr, I was hoping that there might be a faster
> option in PHP, too.
>
> Using substr seems to be pretty fast at the moment, though, so maybe
> it's not too bad. PHP seems to process a bit faster than Perl did,
> probably because it doesn't need the external DBI module.
>
> - Jason
Well, I don't know about speed. I haven't programmed in perl before, but
string functions in php are pretty fast, and easy to use. Regex is not
my strong suit so I tend to favor those when dealing strings.

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