Hi Monks, I'm attempting to assign a function to a variable and then call the function from the variable. For example:

if ( $file =~ /^London/ ) {
        $time_zone_func = gmtime;
        } else {
        $time_zone_func = localtime;
        }


  my $prev_days = $4 * 86400;
  if ( $prev_days ) {
  $TIMESTAMP = strftime($date_format, $time_zone_func(time - $prev_day
+s));
  } else {
  $TIMESTAMP = strftime($date_format, $time_zone_func(time));
  }

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This does not work and I'm guessing that it's not possible, but thought I'd ask the Guru's to be sure. Obviously, there is a workaround, but this seemed like the least amount of code to accomplish the task if it worked.

Thanks a lot

In reply to Variable behaving as a function call by dirtdog

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