Thanks to all your responses. It works now!!
Kevin, I'll try this one as well, but for now the d instead of s works
enough!!
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Meltzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 10:09 AM
To: Arante, Susan
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help on Date Format
Hi Susan,
I get what you expect:
perl -wle '$y=2001;$m=4;$d=5;printf("\%s%02s%02s.doc",$y,$m,$d)';
20010405.doc
Personally, I like POSIX.pm for dates.
# perl -MPOSIX -wle 'print strftime("%Y%m%d", localtime) . ".doc"';
20010424.doc
'perldoc POSIX' to learn more (look for strftime).
Cheers,
Kevin
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:00:40AM -0500, Arante, Susan
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth:
> 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).
>
> Thanks.
>
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