Henrik K wrote:
This might sound a big picky, but using backticks to call the date
command in a perl script is horrible. Try using the standard gmtime
function. Eg:
$date = gmtime().' (UTC)';
Rather than:
$date = `date -u`; chomp($date);
/me too busy to man perlfunc
Let this thread be an inspiration for all coders out there.
Now back to the real world..
Sorry, I assumed that if you were releasing source code to the public,
you'd want to make sure it was cross platform compatible. I wont point
out the various other limitations with your script then.
--
Mike Cardwell
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