Re: Can you explain the difference with print?

That's a classic mistake: when Perl sees print followed by an opening paren, it interprets that as print(...), i.e. like any regular function call foo(...), and then it doesn't understand the [6] following the function call. You need to disambiguate using one of several methods - the most explicit IMHO is an extra set of parentheses, print( (localtime)[6] );. Or better yet, just use one of the nicer OO interfaces like Time::Piece.

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Re^2: Can you explain the difference with print? by hippo (Archbishop) on Aug 05, 2023 at 11:00 UTC
Or better yet, just use one of the nicer OO interfaces like Time::Piece Agreed - the interface is so much easier to work with and for this case requires no brackets at all. `perl -MTime::Piece -we 'print localtime->day_of_week'` [download] 🦛	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Can you explain the difference with print? by Bod (Parson) on Aug 05, 2023 at 23:27 UTC
That's a classic mistake Thanks for the explanation - it's now very clear :) Or better yet, just use one of the nicer OO interfaces... I was doing that oneliner to remind myself what `[6]` was as I was working on a bit of pre-existing code. It has now been converted to use Time::Piece's `localtime->wdayname` so that the rest of the code uses day names instead of magic numbers.	[reply] [d/l] [select]