Re: Modifying date/time stamps

I'm not comfortable with the idea of shelling so often. ... I have the feeling TIABWTDI (there is a better way to do it)

Indeed. That entire sequence of shelling out to get date components can be replaced in one of several ways. perldoc -f localtime will give you info on one approach.

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Re: Re: Modifying date/time stamps by BUU (Prior) on Aug 07, 2002 at 06:03 UTC
and you could replace that huge series of ifs with a `@array=qw/jan feb mar.../; $foo=~/(\d+)/;$array[$1];` Basically.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Modifying date/time stamps by theorbtwo (Prior) on Aug 07, 2002 at 09:30 UTC
Also, take a look at strftime in POSIX. It'll even let you use your existing format-strings, since date +foo is just a wrapper around strftime. Confession: It does an Immortal Body good.	[reply]