perl how to convert a string to Datetime?

Question

I tried to convert a string to date in perl, but get error.

use strict; 
use warnings;  
use DateTime;  
use Date::Manip;

my $date = ParseDate(\"20111121\");
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Answer 1

DateTime doesn't parse dates. I'd go for the Time::Piece core module that gives you strptime():

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Time::Piece;
my $t = Time::Piece->strptime("20111121", "%Y%m%d");
print $t->strftime("%w\n");