Re: Help on Date Format

[John Joseph Trammell]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:09:13PM -0400, Kevin Meltzer wrote:
> Hi Susan,
> 
> I get what you expect:
> 
> perl -wle '$y=2001;$m=4;$d=5;printf("\%s%02s%02s.doc",$y,$m,$d)';
> 20010405.doc

[snip]

Well I'll be damned.

[ ~ ] perl -e 'printf "%04s\n", 1'
0001
[ ~ ] perl -e 'printf "%04s\n", "1"'
0001
[ ~ ] perl -e 'printf "%04s\n", "   1"'
   1
[ ~ ] perl -e 'printf "%04s\n", "  1"'
0  1
[ ~ ]

And here I thought I knew it all.  :-)

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