Sam Harris wrote: > > I am trying to extract last month's date from today's date as in "Jan" or >"Feb"....is there a switch to enable that ?
Well im not sure what you want. $ perl -we 'print join " ", localtime , "\n" ' 27 24 15 11 1 103 2 41 0 $ perl -we 'print scalar localtime , "\n" ' Tue Feb 11 15:24:11 2003 $ perl -we 'print "", (localtime)[4]-1 , "\n" ' 0 perldoc -f time perldoc -f localtime /Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]