"M. Lewis" schreef:
> if I were to want $day, $month, $hour,
> $minute & $sec to have a leading zero (ie 01 for Jan rather than 1),
> is my only option to use printf? Or is there a better way.
>
> What I'm searching for here is the *correct* method to get $day,
> $month, etc for uses like naming backup files
> (databackup-2007-01-21.tar.gz).
(s)printf is fine:
my $i = 0;
my $fname = sprintf "databackup-%04d-%02d-%02d.tar.gz",
map {$_ + (1900,1,0)[$i++]} (localtime)[5,4,3];
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