Re: baby perl to get the right date

2014-01-28 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Rob Dixon wrote: > It is probably best to use the Time::Piece module, which has been part of > core Perl 5 since version 10 so you shouldn't need to install it. > Thanks, I was not aware of it. And it does what I need. Luca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-

Re: baby perl to get the right date

2014-01-28 Thread Rob Dixon
On 28/01/2014 07:32, Luca Ferrari wrote: Hi all, often I find myself writing something like the following to get the "human" date: my ($day, $month, $year) = (localtime())[3..5]; $month++, $year += 1900; print "\nToday is $month / $day / $year \n"; I was wondering if there's a smarter pattern

Re: baby perl to get the right date

2014-01-28 Thread David Precious
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 08:32:20 +0100 Luca Ferrari wrote: > Hi all, > often I find myself writing something like the following to get the > "human" date: > > my ($day, $month, $year) = (localtime())[3..5]; > $month++, $year += 1900; > print "\nToday is $month / $day / $year \n"; > > > I was wonde

Re: baby perl to get the right date

2014-01-28 Thread Dr.Ruud
On 2014-01-28 08:32, Luca Ferrari wrote: often I find myself writing something like the following to get the "human" date: my ($day, $month, $year) = (localtime())[3..5]; $month++, $year += 1900; print "\nToday is $month / $day / $year \n"; I was wondering if there's a smarter pattern to get