Hello
I am a very new to PERL. When I run the program why is it that $new_date is printed on three lines rather than one? Below is the output I get from the code further below. Thank you for any help.

-Charles 
the year is 2004
the month is 03
the day is 04
2004
03
04
2004
03
03

#!/usr/bin/perl
my $yr = `date -u +%Y`; #get the output of year
my $mm = `date -u +%m`; #get the output of month
my $dd = `date -u +%d`; #get the output of day
my $yyyymmdd = `date -u +%Y%m%d`;

print "the year is $yr";
print "the month is $mm";
print "the day is $dd";

$new_date = "$yr$mm$dd";

print $new_date;

$yes_dd = $dd -1;

$yes_dd = 0 . $yes_dd;

$yes_date = $yr.$mm.$yes_dd;

print "$yes_date\n";

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