On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:20:16 +0000, Mark Richmond wrote:
> Ok, so I'm confused
> What I want to do is create a directory where the name is the current
> date say mkdir(2002131)
> What Can't figure out is how to build the date string. I'm sure I'm
> just missing something.
> Any thoughts.
[can you please try to configure your mail client not to use HTML]
You probably need the "strftime" function from the POSIX module.
my $date = strftime('%Y%m%d', localtime);
hth,
Dave...
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