Based on your updated reply saying that you aren't planning on printing them, I can only assume you are using them for string comparisons. Otherwise, the presence of the leading zero would be meaningless in a numeric comparison. (And no, it wouldn't cause evaluation as octal.)

Also, like one other person showed, it would be much more efficient to get $month and increment it, rather than subscripting a constant array as you are in your sample code.

Getting back to your question, there are two ways to produce the strings you want:

    ($day, $month, $year) = (localtime)[3 .. 5]; $year += 1900;

    # Method 1:
    $day = sprintf "%02d", $day;
    $month = sprintf "%02d", $month + 1;

    # Method 2:
    $day = substr("0$day", -2);
    $month++;
    $month = substr("0$month", -2);

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As you can see, printf is still you best tool here, though strictly-speaking you are using its cousin sprintf.

--rjray

In reply to Re: Seeking the by rjray
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