I'm using an old (2001) canned perl script to manage questions to my tech
site. It is of big help since it can answer common questions from templates
and a real time saver.
Alas, that time saves is now being diminished by junk mail about cheap drugs
and I'm trying to figure out how to filter
From: Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Perl script help
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:29:39 -0600
Jack Stone wrote:
I'm using an old (2001) canned perl script to manage questions to my tech
site. It is of big help since
I need $timezone to hold the time zone in this format -00:00
The command date +%z will give it as -
I know nothing about writing perl scripts.
Can somebody show me how to add the : in the output
of the date command in the simple following script?
The cat statement is just so I can
JJB wrote:
I need $timezone to hold the time zone in this format -00:00
The command date +%z will give it as -
I know nothing about writing perl scripts.
Can somebody show me how to add the : in the output
of the date command in the simple following script?
The cat statement is just so
Not that i am very good in perl,
In KSH scripting it's like this:
%H:%M for a 00:00 output instead of
Perhaps that will help you:-)
(Oh the command date +%H:%M)
Cheers
Well that does not work (FYI)
Cheers (perhaps Matthew's comments on this are better ;-) )
--
Kind regards,
Remko
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 17:05, JJB wrote:
I know nothing about writing perl scripts.
Can somebody show me how to add the : in the output
of the date command in the simple following script?
Try this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$timezone=`date +\%z`; #Gets the offset in $timezone
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Shaun Friedle wrote:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$timezone=`date +\%z`;#Gets the offset in $timezone
$timezone =~ s/(\+[0-9][0-9])/$1:/; #Replaces ±NN with ±NN:
print $timezone; #Prints $timezone
The regex should allow either a plus or a minus
