Try

print +(localtime)[4];
#or
print( (localtime)[4] );
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To discover why this works, enable warnings:) and then read this extract from perlfunc:print

Also be careful not to follow the print keyword with a left parenthesis unless you want the corresponding right parenthesis to terminate the arguments to the print--interpose a + or put parentheses around all the arguments.

Actually, you don't have to enable warnings, as the construct won't compile:

    $ perl -wle 'print(localtime)[3]'
    syntax error at -e line 1, near ")["
    Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
    $
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The warning you are referring to is silly. It'll trigger in constructs like:

    print (3) + 4
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but only if you have a single space between 'print' and the opening parenthesis.

And you thought Python was evil because it gave meaning to whitespace.

Abigail

(Any news from the letter you sent to p5p about this? (reference: (print (...) interpreted as function)))

(jeffa)

(
L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
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(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)
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