well, there's also the 'time' operator...
but it all depends on what format you want/need
of course, there's the Date::Format module on cpan taht probably can format
it anyway you like
look at it here:
http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=date%3A%3Aformat
hth,
Jos Boumans
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Grossner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 10:33 PM
Subject: Opening a file, but adding the date to the name
> I want to open a file:
>
> open (CONFIG, ">/tftpboot/$_");
> chmod (0777, "/tftpboot/$_");
>
> but i want to make the filename be $_."the current date"
>
> the localtime function doesnt look very promising, as the output is not
> very human readable :-)
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
>
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