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I'll steer you in the right direction. Don't use POSIX!

According to POSIX.pm and Perl 5.004_02 - Compatible?, the only reason you appear to need POSIX is for the strftime function. Well, one of my favorite date/time modules, Time::Piece, has a strftime function as well:

use Time::Piece;

print localtime->strftime('%Y%m%d.%H%M%S');
print localtime->strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M%S');
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Note that i have not tried this with Perl 5.004_02, but after looking at the source, i do not see any immediate 'flags' that indicate it won't work.

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jeffa

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In reply to Re: How-to install POSIX.pm by jeffa
in thread How-to install POSIX.pm by LeeC79

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