Why all the contortions? Keep it simple and talk to your database:
$ echo "select to_char(to_date('19830501?','YYYYMMDD'), 'FMMon FMdd, y
+yyy?')" \
| perl -MDBI -ne '
print DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:")->selectall_arrayref($_)->[0]->[0],
+ "\n";
';
May 1, 1983?
;-)
P.S. (Looks I am the first one to spot the terminal question mark in your example? Does that get me Mega-XP too?)
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