Re: printing element of anonymous array

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Using the core Perl module Time::Piece (which overrides the built-in functions localtime and gmtime, providing functions that return objects):

use Time::Piece;
print gmtime->wday;

The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

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Re^2: printing element of anonymous array by haukex (Archbishop) on Mar 04, 2018 at 12:03 UTC
Just for TIMTOWTDI, Time::gmtime has been in core ~10 years longer: `use Time::gmtime; print gmtime->wday;` [download] But there is a difference: Time::Piece's `wday` index is 1-based (1=Sunday) while gmtime and Time::gmtime's `wday` is 0-based (0=Sunday).	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: printing element of anonymous array by 1nickt (Canon) on Mar 04, 2018 at 17:24 UTC
True, but there's a reason Time::Piece was placed in core, and it ain't because Time::gmtime had feature bloat. Besides the aforementioned `wday()`, which provides a one-indexed numerical value for the day of the week, Time::Piece also provides `_wday()` and `day_of_week()` for getting the zero-indexed value, as well as `fullday()` to get the full name of the day, and `day()` and `wdayname()` for an abbreviated version of the name. The way forward always starts with a minimal test.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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