rahed schreef: > AndrewMcHorney: >> I am looking for a perl function or functions that will give me the >> date and time. I am going to use the results to create a unique file >> name. > > There are many posibilities depending on uniqueness, > this is quite similar: > > $randnum = 1000 + int rand(9000); > $filename = time.'_'.$randnum;
You could put that inside a "while (1) {}", that also contains a "-e $filename or last;", but even then you would still risk a race condition. -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/