$filename = "data_logfile" .(localtime). ".txt"; open(LOG, ">>$filename") || die "cannot append: $!";
when I compile the file is says "Invalid argument". This is because of the colon character.
Suppose after one activity I want to update the log activities in one file say data_logfileTIME.txt
You could use the time() function which returns the number of seconds since the epoch (Jan 1 1970 on Unix systems.)
perldoc -f time
Or if you want a human readable format you could use the POSIX::strftime() function.
perldoc POSIX
Or you could extract the fields from localtime() or gmtime() in list context and use sprintf() to format them.
perldoc -f localtime perldoc -f gmtime perldoc -f sprintf
John -- use Perl; program fulfillment
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