jason corbett wrote:
i want to use the sub routine to time stamp processes and such whenever i need to. So, I wrote this below to call the routine into a variable $process_date. Is there a better way to read the date into a variable and use it?
For one you should scope it if its a function.
IE
use strict; use warnings;
print "Dateme is: " . dateme() . "\n";
sun dateme { return "your value here"; }
The second thing is why not use time() or localtim() instead of calling the system dat function and worrying all about that mess, Just do
print "Dateme is: " . localtime() . "\n";
No artificial flavors, no artificial colors and none of these! :)
Thanks,
JC sub dateme{ $process_date=system('return date');
I think this is nnot doing what you expect either.
Use localtime(), time() (for easy epoch stamping) or if you really want control:
use POSIX; POSIX::strftime()
perldoc POSIX perldoc -f time perldoc -f localtime
}return;
return outside the function? huh??
perldoc -f return
HTH
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