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

with $stat9 which displays the date and time and stuff. How can I make it just display the date

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Re: stat function ? number two
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jun 12, 2002 at 15:33 UTC
    The time returned is in seconds since the epoch. It only displays date and time if you translate it to a date and time. If you don't want to have the time, then don't do that!

    You might want to investigate the POSIX::strftime function.

    Abigail

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      can't I do it with localhost
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        I mean localtime
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Re: stat function ? number two
by Joost (Canon) on Jun 12, 2002 at 15:54 UTC
    Read the docs on localtime.

    You can do this with perldoc -f localtime

    You will (amongs a lot of very useful information) see an example of Abigail's suggestion (strftime): 

    use POSIX qw(strftime);
$now_string = strftime "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y", localtime;

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    Adapting this piece of code to your needs is left as an exercise. 

    -- 
Joost       downtime n. The period during which a system
            is error-free and immune from user input.

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Re: stat function ? number two
by GhodMode (Pilgrim) on Jun 12, 2002 at 16:09 UTC
         Here's how I do it... 
    use POSIX 'strftime';
open (FILE, "file.txt");
my $filedate = strftime('%m%d%Y', localtime( (lstat(FILE))[9] ));

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      Im j/w is there a way to do it withought use POSIX
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