Ronald Yacketta wrote: > From: Praful Bajaria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > All, > > > > How would I get ddmmyyyy format of time in a variable. > > Once I get this format (value in variable),I would > > like to append to a file. > > > > $currtime = time(); > > @currtime = gmtime($currtime); > > print " @currtime \n "; > > > > but the above code doen't give me yyyy. > > use Time::Local; > use POSIX; > > $TODAY = strftime("%d%m%Y", localtime()); > > print $TODAY; > > 13062003 > >
That's a good way to do it, but the POSIX module is /huge/. If this is all you want of it then the following is more concise. HTH, Rob my @dmy = (localtime)[3..5]; $dmy[1] ++; $dmy[2] += 1900; my $dmy = sprintf "%02d%02d%04d", @dmy; print $dmy, "\n"; OUTPUT 13062003 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
