On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:20:16 +0000, Mark Richmond wrote: > Ok, so I'm confused > What I want to do is create a directory where the name is the current > date say mkdir(2002131) > What Can't figure out is how to build the date string. I'm sure I'm > just missing something. > Any thoughts.
[can you please try to configure your mail client not to use HTML] You probably need the "strftime" function from the POSIX module. my $date = strftime('%Y%m%d', localtime); hth, Dave... -- "Don't you boys know any _nice_ songs?" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]