The colon was the problem
At 02:18 PM 10/26/2008, Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote:
On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 14:10 -0700, AndrewMcHorney wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have some perl code that was working and for the life of me I
> cannot determine why it is is failing now. All I am trying to do is
> to create and open a new file using a date time stamp in the
> filename. Below is the code snippet for the open, It is returning an
> invalid argument error.
>
>
> ($Seconds,$Minutes,$Hours,$Day,$Month,$Year) = (localtime)[0,1,2,3,4,5];
> $Year = $Year + 1900;
>
> $Date = $Month."-".$Day."-".$Year.".".$Hours.":".$Minutes.":".$Seconds;
>
> $DuplicateFileName = ">Duplicate_File_List_".$Date;
> print $DuplicateFileName."\n";
>
> $OpenStatus = 1;
>
> open DUPLICATE_FILE_NAME, $DuplicateFileName or $OpenStatus = 0;
> if ($OpenStatus == 0)
> {
> print "$!";
> print " ";
> die "Unable to open duplicate file name file\n";
> }
>
> Thanks
> Andrew
>
>
Linux or Windows?
In Windows, some characters are not allowed in file names. I do believe
':' is one of them (it is use to separate the volume from the path as in
C:\TEMP).
BTW, you may want to investigate strftime() in POSIX. It formats dates:
use POSIX;
my @tm = localtime;
$Date = strftime( '%m_%d_%Y_%H_%M_%S', @tm );
--
Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
Shawn
Linux is obsolete.
-- Andrew Tanenbaum
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