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> Guys - I have another seemingly trivial question that I can't seem to 
> figure out.   Does anyone have a one-liner that can convert a line 
> like this:
>
> 'ab_ba_ab_ba','mfljwis at yahoo.com','12/15/2001'
>
> into a line like this:
>
> 'ab_ba_ab_ba','mfljwis at yahoo.com','1008392400'

I couldn't come up with a oneliner since I've never figured out how to 
properly escape complex perl scripts using -e.

Direct from the perl cookbook:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Time::Local;
use strict;

while(<STDIN>) {
         my($data, $email, $date) = split(',', $_);
         $date =~ s/'//g;

         my($month, $day, $year) = split('/', $date);
         my $time = timelocal(0, 0, 0, $day, $month - 1, $year - 1900);

         print("$data,$email,\'$time\'\n");
}

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