On Jul 21, Dave Adams said:
I want to create a variable, to be used for other stuff, using today's date.
And what do you want it to look like? The YYYYMMDD format you have
printing?
use Time::localtime;
my $tm = localtime;
printf("The current date is
%04d%02d%02d\n",$tm->year+1900,($tm->mon)+1, $tm->mday);
my $currentdate = ??????
print ($currentdate);
my $currentdate = sprintf "%04d%02d%02d", $tm->year+1900, ...;
You want sprintf() instead of print(), if you want to store the formatted
string instead of print it.
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