Catman...d_date(3pm)

💖 Catman...d_date(3pm) 💖

okay bestie, so this is Catmandu::Fix::expand_date from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and we need to have a chat about it. 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Catmandu::Fix::expand_date — the fix that takes one lil date field and expands it out into year, month and date. it's giving "deconstructed", it's giving "we spread it out on the table". ✨

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💀 NOTE 💀

THIS PACKAGE IS DEPRECATED AND WILL BE REMOVED IN THE FUTURE. like, not "someday maybe" — it's on the chopping block. please use Catmandu::Fix::split_date instead, bestie. i'm begging. 🙈

Reasons, in bullet form because we're classy:

• it writes directly in the root of the hash, which is a different behaviour compared to all the other fixes (sum, count, hash, array ..). not like the other girls, and not in a good way 💀
• it adds the new keys in a different location, instead of "in place". rude.
• its behaviour cannot be changed without breaking its current use. so we're stuck with it. tragic. iconic, but tragic.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

# {date => "2001-09-11"}
expand_date()
# => {year => 2001, month => "9", day => "11", date => "2001-09-11"}

# {datestamp => "2001:09"}
expand_date(datestamp)
# => {year => 2001, month => "9", datestamp => "2001:09"}

see how it just. does all that. no cap. 🔥

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the date field gets expanded if it contains a year, optionally followed by numeric month and day, each separated by - or :. that's it, that's the whole vibe check. 🎀

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okay that's the whole page, sending u a little mwah, this was perl v5.40.1 dated 2026-01-24, from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, ily, go use split_date 💅💜