Removing charactors from a string 1

[davef101]

i have a string:

"16:32:20 19/09/2006"

and i want to remove the 19/09/2006 into seperate strings, $day,$mon,$year ...

anyone ?

Thanks.

 

[ishnid]

my $string = '16:32:20 19/09/2006';

my ( $day, $month, $year ) = ( split /[ \/]/, $string )[2..4];

And if you want the time too:

my $string = '16:32:20 19/09/2006';

my ( $hour, $minute, $second, $day, $month, $year ) = split /[ \/:]/, $string;

 

[davef101]

Thanks very much