On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Tim Wolak wrote: > I am in need of a quick way to get the current date in the YYYYMMDD > format. This is something I would like to understand better on how to > get the date with perl. Any suggestions would be most welcome.
You need to read up on localtime. ----------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year) = (localtime)[0,1,2,3,4,5]; $year=$year+1900; $mon=$mon+1; printf("%02d%02d%02d", $year,$mon,$mday); ----------------------------------------------- Owen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>