Re: [FWP] Real World Perl

["Bernie Cosell" <bernie@fantasyfarm.com>]

On 21 Mar 2001, at 21:57, Vicki Brown wrote:

>... It's called "GetToday" and it wants to... return the date in
> YYYYMMDD format. Ready?

I have to confess that in my "real world" Perl examples, I have 
invariably done it like this:

chomp (my $dt = `date +%Y%m%d%H%M`) ;

[Remove %H%M if you don't need the timestamp down to the hour/minute]

Seemed then, and seems now to me, so simple and clear compared to the 
Perl alternatives [which I admit are undoubtedly more portable and more 
flexible, but such is life].

  /Bernie\
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