On Oct 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>my $month = system("date '+%b'");
>$month = uc $month;
Your problem is that you're misusing system(). system() does NOT return
output (see perldoc -f system). If you wanted to get output, you'd use
my $month = `date '+%b'`;
but there's NO reason to use a system command! Use the built-in
localtime() function:
my $month = (split ' ', uc localtime)[1];
localtime(), in scalar context, returns a string like
"Fri Oct 25 10:30:23 2002"
I'm uppercasing it, splitting it on whitespace, and getting the 2nd
element ("OCT").
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