Re: localtime

in reply to Fetching Only Month and Year From localtime()

The (LIST)[LIST] syntax others have shown is called a list slice. It allows you to have an arbitrary expression that generates a list in the () and extract arbitrary elements from it, by specifying the index/indicies in the [].

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•Re^2: localtime by merlyn (Sage) on Jan 05, 2005 at 20:21 UTC
Yup. List slice. One of the few bits of Perl that I can genuinely claim ownership of. One of the others is coderef arrow (`$coderef->(@args)`). -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply] [d/l]

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