sravs448 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am getting an error using POSIX . strftime. I followed the guidelines mentioned in perldoc http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/localtime.html

what is the mistake I did here

use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX qw(strftime); 
my $datestring = strftime "%B %d %Y", localtime;
print("date  - $datestring\n");

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Output message :
Usage: POSIX::strftime(fmt, sec, min, hour, mday, mon, year, wday = -1, yday = - 1, isdst = -1) at C:\Users\asdsa\Desktop\testmail.pl line 4.

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Re: Error while using POSIX strftime
by Corion (Patriarch) on Sep 16, 2014 at 20:44 UTC

    I cannot reproduce that error.

    Code used:

    use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX qw(strftime); 
my $datestring = strftime "%B %d %Y", localtime;
print("date  - $datestring\n");

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    Output

    date  - September 16 2014

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    This is perl 5, version 16, subversion 3 (v5.16.3) built for MSWin32-x
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Re: Error while using POSIX strftime
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 16, 2014 at 20:08 UTC

    This code doesn't compile, and when I add the missing my, the code works for me. Please post code that compiles and reproduces the problem.

    Note that you probably want to use print instead of printf.

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      Yes. It throws the same error after adding "my" as well. Updated the code. But I am still getting the same error.
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        Item 2 and 4 on the Basic debugging checklist: look at your data.

        use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX qw(strftime); 
my @lt = localtime;
use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper(\@lt);
my $datestring = strftime "%B %d %Y", @lt;
print("date  - $datestring\n");

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        Please post the output.

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        What version of Perl are you using? Perhaps it is a bug in an old version of POSIX 
        perl -v

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