Nikola Tulechki wrote on 8/1/12 5:15 AM: > Just a quick follow up concerning the "fixed width string" issue Peter was > talking about. > > Note that if you work directly with unix timestamps (as I was), make sure all > your dates are posterior to 09 sept 2001, (1000000000). Otherwise use Peter's > solution (yyyymmdd - format) >
I would expect fixed-width with leading zeros to work too. E.g.:
my $epoch_fixed = sprintf("%012d", $epoch);
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