How to substitute dates in Perl?

Question

perl -pi.back -e \'s/2013/07/31-05:54:14/2014/07/31-00:00:00/g;\' /tmp/ranjan/replace.SEL

I\'m using the above one liner to replace the date from

Answer 1

Use an alternative delimiter:

s{find}{replace}g;

or

s#find#replace#g;

Otherwise you'd have to escape all the /.