http://www.perlmonks.org?node_id=296927


in reply to formatting dates

I would use the regex by reflex, I think the unpack is pretty cool, and for yet more TIMTOWTDI, this is just ammo for those that like to benchmark substr against regexen: 
$date = 'yyyymmdd';
substr($date,$_,0) = '-' for(6,4);

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Update: stupid typo fixed

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