On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 21:25, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to get 081129 into $dayStamp. > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > use strict; > my $dayStamp; > $dayStamp = `date +\'%y%m%d\'` && die "Failure!"; > print "$dayStamp\n"; > > > My program outputs: > Failure! at /Users/dave/perl/dateLogger01.pl line 4. > > I thought I did every conceivable combination of backticks and double quotes > allowable. I'm quite stuck. snip
Using external programs when that is not the main purpose of the program is generally a bad idea. Luckily the tools you need are part of Core Perl: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use POSIX qw(strftime); #FIXME: give serious consideration to using %Y #instead of %y, two digit years are not good my $dayStamp = strftime "%y%m%d", localtime; print "$dayStamp\n"; -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
