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

From the module documentation: This module does not parse dates

You need to add code such as suggested in I printed a date with strftime, how do I parse it again? to convert from a string to a date time object.