Re: [FWP] Real World Perl

[Neil Kandalgaonkar <neilk@ActiveState.com>]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:57:53PM -0800, Vicki Brown wrote:
> So, can it be done in one line, (without calling localtime more than once)?

> sub GetToday2 {
>     my (undef,undef,undef,$mday,$mon,$year) = localtime(time);
> 
>     sprintf("%4d%02d%02d", $year + 1900, $mon+1, $mday);
> 
> }
> 

# incorrect for years below 1000. :)
sub today3{sprintf("%d%02d%02d",(@_=(localtime)[5,4,3],$_[0]+=1900,$_[1]++,@_))'

# canonical
sub today4{POSIX::strftime("%Y%m%d",localtime)}

# unix only
sub today5{`date +%Y%m%d`}

-- 
Neil Kandalgaonkar
Web App Developer, ActiveState

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