I was trying to extract month and day from localtime() for use in a larger program using if statements. The numerical day worked fine, but the month string seemed to disappear. There's probably a simple explanation my newbie mind isn't grasping. Testing this out below(March 9): 

   use warnings;
             $time = scalar localtime();
             $time =~ /(\s[A-Z][a-z]+)/;
             $month = $1;

             $time =~ /\s(\d+)\s/;
             $day = $1;

             print $month," ",$day;
             print "\n";
             if($month eq 'Mar'){print "true\n";}
             else{print "false\n";}

             if($day == 9){print"true";}
             else{print"false";}

             #prints:
              Mar 9
              false
              true

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The $month value('Mar'} seems to vanish within the if statement and only in the if statement. What's going on here?

In reply to value disappears in if statement by ggadd

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