At 21.54 +0000 2000.01.06, John Delacour wrote: > #!perl -w > use strict; > my ( @time, $timestamp, $save) = (localtime time); > my ($year, $mon, $mday, $hour, $min, $sec) = > @time[5,4,3,2,1,0]; Just an FYI, since you are not using @time again, you can do: my($year, $mon, $mday, $hour, $min, $sec, $timestamp, $save) = reverse((localtime)[0 .. 5]); Although it is probably better to do: my($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $timestamp, $save) = (localtime)[0 .. 5]; -- Chris Nandor mailto:pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ %PGPKey = ('B76E72AD', [1024, '0824090B CE73CA10 1FF77F13 8180B6B6']) # ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? # ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org