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    Christopher> Guys - I have another seemingly trivial question that
    Christopher> I can't seem to figure out.  Does anyone have a
    Christopher> one-liner that can convert a line like this:

    Christopher> 'ab_ba_ab_ba','mfljwis at yahoo.com','12/15/2001'

    Christopher> into a line like this:

    Christopher> 'ab_ba_ab_ba','mfljwis at yahoo.com','1008392400'


Presuming the last field's the only thing that looks dateish:

perl -MTime::Local -pe 's{(?:(\d{1,2})/(\d{1,2})/(\d{4}))}{timelocal((0)x3,$2,$1-1,$3)}e'


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