[Fun With Perl] Re: system("date | perl -p -e 'chop' >> $timef")

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 11:36 -0700 06/07/1999, John Kristian wrote:
>Thank you for creating this list!


I hope we'll have fun

>
>Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com> wrote:
>
> >     system("date | perl -p -e 'chop' >> $timef");
> >
> > no comment required here, I think... (if you want one, let me know).
>
>Please.  Why not


Because you don't need one :-) You've figured it out.

>
>    { local *F; ...

best to use my rather than local these days, and I believe there is 
no reason to use either on the glob but

>{ open F, ">> $timef"; print F (scalar localtime); close F }

yup :-)

>which are less compact, but faster, safer and more portable?

But not nearly as mindboggling as opening a shell process so as to 
call perl from perl (and to do so solely for the purpose of removing 
the trailing newline)

>
>I started using Perl a few months ago.  I enjoy it thoroughly, and hope to
>master it, in time.

As do we all.

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