Re: Time Difference

FWIW, this works with time(), but not localtime().

(With localtime, you get an "argument isn't numeric in subtraction" error.)

#filename: stickOutputOnEnd.pl
use warnings;
use strict;

my $time1 = time();
sleep(5);
my $time2 = time();
my $timedifference = $time2-$time1; # doesn't work if you use localtim
+e.
print scalar $timedifference;
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Re^2: Time Difference by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Mar 18, 2005 at 10:01 UTC
FWIW, this works with time(), but not localtime(). Er, yes. Because they have two quite distinct functions. `time()` returns the epoch seconds representing the current time and `localtime()` (or `gmtime()`) returns a list representing the parts of the time (like the `struct tm` returned by the similarly named C library functions.) when in list context or a string represention thereof when in scalar context. /J\	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Time Difference by kpaxian25 (Novice) on Mar 18, 2005 at 19:07 UTC
Thank you all. That really helps.	[reply]