K Pfeiffer wrote: > > This lost me for a moment. I figured it out by trying... > > #!/usr/bin/perl > use warnings; > use strict; > # test "get uc month from localtime" > > my $month = qw(JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV > DEC)[(localtime)[4]]; > > print localtime,"\n"; > my $x = localtime[4]; print "$x\n"; > print "$month\n"; > > With this result: > 325927910202990 > Mon Apr 15 08:17:32 1974 > OCT > > I then made this change (added parens): > my $x = (localtime)[4]; print $x,"\n"; > > which yields "9" as expected. (Your way might be better if I later want to > change "OCT" to "October" or "10th month" etc.?) > > So what did "localtime[4]" (without parens) do?
my $x = localtime[4]; Is the same as: my $x = localtime; Which assigns the scalar value of localtime to $x. The [4] part is ignored. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
