On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:00:40AM -0500, Arante, Susan wrote:
> Could someone tell me why this is happening?  When I use this command, it
> used to give me 20010405.doc (yyyymmdd.doc), now it's giving me 2001 4 5.doc
> - I'm losing the leading zeros.  
> Command is on Perl 5 - printf("\%s%02s%02s.doc",$year,$month,$day).

You probably want "%d%02d%02d.doc" as your format string.

 d => digits
 s => strings

And I don't think you need that leading "\".

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