On Apr 16, James Kelty said: >Can someone point me to the perldoc's that can help me get the localtime >equivalent of the shell command /bin/date +'%Y%m%d' ?
Either perldoc -f localtime and roll your own, or read perldoc POSIX and look for strftime(). It uses the same format strings as date, I believe. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
