[MacPerl] Time question

[John Delacour <JD@EREMITA.demon.co.uk>]

At 11:50 pm -0400 27/12/99, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, John Delacour wrote:
>
>> Alpha seems a very nice editor for working with Perl, but I seem to be
>> having a problem with carriage returns (reported as such but with code
> > /012) and the Apple Events Alpha is using.  Taking the text from a
>
>Alpha reports the line-ending type in the lower-right of the bottom status
>bar. To convert, use Save As, and select from Mac, Unix, or IBM. This
>means you'll answer Yes to Replace File?

Terrific.  Thanks.  I'm sure Alpha is going to be my editor of choice for Perl but I'm hoping to change a few things to make it more pleasant to the eyes.  I'd like to find a way to get "* Perl Output *" windows open at a fixed size and not have to watch a full-size window flash up and resize itself.

Actually !'ve just discovered a simpler way to get over the problem I was having and that is to type shift-[F9] and select "Perl".

Now I'm a little confused with time.  In MacPerl this does not seem to return an associative array as I understand from my little O'Reilly crib it ought to , so that I can't get $time[$year] but have to get $time[5] as in the script below -- or am I reading too much into the crib?

#!perl
@time = gmtime 3029529600;
print 1900 + $time[5];
print "/";
print 1 + $time[4];
print "/";
print 1 + $time[3];
print "\n";

Thanks for your help.

JD




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