On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > > I am looking for some simple perl functions that will return the current date > and time in string format. The purpose is to create a file with part of the > name being the date and time.
I use something like this ------------------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/perl my $file_base_name = "foo"; my $t = time(); my $file_name = "$file_base_name$t"; print "$file_name\n"; # or if you requite somthing more readable my @t = localtime(); my $file_name_identifier = sprintf( "%04d%02d%02d", $t[5] + 1900, $t[4] + 1, $t[3] ); $file_name = "$file_base_name$file_name_identifier\n"; print "$file_name\n"; -------------------------------------------------------------- Owen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
