parsing numbers

[Anon]

I'm trying to make a date converter and I can't figure out how to parse the code that we are going to use (122301 for todays date) and have it display December 23, 2001. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Read about substr()
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

and mktime
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php

and strftime
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php

[Anon]

Thanks

[psr540]

$raw_date = '122301';
$formatted_date = Date('F d,Y', strtotime(preg_replace('/(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})/', '\3-\1-\2',$raw_date)));

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Elegant, but this is more than twice as fast (under windows, can't check un*x right now)

$raw_date = '122301';
echo Date('F d,Y', mktime(0, 0, 0, substr($raw_date,0,2),substr($raw_date,2,2),substr($raw_date,4,2)));