On Thursday 08 July 2004 13:51, perl.org wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 13:01:07 -0700, John W. Krahn wrote > > > > You like typing a lot? :-) You could use a hash slice. > > I'm not really a Perl programmer so I try to make the code clear to > people coming from Java, C#, etc.
Ah, then why are you using $/ instead of "\n" in your example? > (no remarks on my relative success are needed). Sorry, I just had to. :-) > This kind of construct seems foreign to most other > languages. In fact I wish localtime would return an associative > array instead of a positional array (I basically wrap localtime with > a sub that converts the data to a hash). localtime(), like many of Perl's builtin functions, is just a wrapper around the C library function of the same name. man 3 localtime > > I don't know why it is changing, > > (I can't see your entire program) but perhaps you should just store > > the current time in a scalar and see if that helps. > > It would have to be a global or environment variable, which I am > hoping to avoid (especially since this one should already contain the > value). The value in $^T should remain the same for the duration of the program. When it changes does it stay at the new value or does it switch back to the old value? John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
