William M West wrote:
>
> i'd like to take a couple of strings to concatonate to a path...
>
> here's my start the code:::
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> use strict;
> use diagnostics;
>
> my $date = `date`; #not sure about redirecting output to $path!
>
> $date=~s/( ){3}/; #i think this is proper to just take the string
> #up to the third whitespace character...
>
> my $filename = append_date_to_rest_of_filename();
You can use localtime() and sprintf() to get most of the formatting you
need or POSIX::strftime for really good formatting. Also localtime() in
scalar context returns a string similar to that of the date program.
perldoc -f localtime
perldoc -f sprintf
perldoc POSIX
John
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