Hello,

Usually I want to avoid the load of the POSIX module so here is what i do : 

$formatted_date = now_date() ; 

sub now_date {
    my @now = localtime ; 
    my $now_day = $now[3] ;
    my $now_year = $now[5] + 1900 ;
    my $now_month = $now[4] + 1 ;
    if ($now_month < 10) { $now_month = "0".$now_month }
    if ($now_day < 10) { $now_day = "0".$now_day  }
    my $now_scal = join "-",  ( $now_year, $now_month, $now_day )  ; 
    return  $now_scal ;
}

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Update: I guess it's better with sprintf, like mkirank does : 
sub now_date {
    my @now = localtime ; 
    my $now_day = $now[3] ;
    my $now_year = $now[5] + 1900 ;
    my $now_month = $now[4] + 1 ;
    $now_scal = sprintf "%04d-%02d-%2d", $now_year , $now_month ,$now_
+day ;
    return $now_scal
}

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More Update: As demerphq says it could in the end very well be much better to use POSIX qw(strftime)
Coding practice evolve !

In reply to Re^2: Directory creation with current Date by ZlR
in thread Directory creation with current Date by samv74

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