How can I change the date formats in Perl?

Question

I just want to convert the dates from 20111230 format to 30-dec-2011.

Answer 1

In keeping with TMTOWTDI, you can use Time::Piece

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Time::Piece;
my $t = Time::Piece->strptime("20111230", "%Y%m%d");
print $t->strftime("%d-%b-%Y\n");