Hi Collin, > I've pushed the two attached patches to derive the copyright year from > the time-stamp string.
> +(my $copyright_year = $VERSION) =~ s/^(\d*)-.*$/$1/; Can this be rewritten in a simpler way, that does not use idioms from perl's bag of tricks? Something like my $copyright_year = <some_expression>; like one would do it in every other programming language? Thanks. Bruno