Re^3: Is this logic correct? Maybe can be rewritten better?

Don't roll your own localtime-to-string routine. Use POSIX and strftime, which aside from requiring no extraneous months array and being less code will also respect the date formatting conventions of the current locate.

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Re^4: Is this logic correct? Maybe can be rewritten better? by Nik (Initiate) on Apr 29, 2005 at 16:43 UTC
So how can i write the following lines iwth the use of strptime: `my @months = ('Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', +'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'); my ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst) = loc +altime; my $date = "$mday $months[$mon], $hour:$min";` [download] I didnt understand cpans explanation on this.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Is this logic correct? Maybe can be rewritten better? by Fletch (Bishop) on Apr 29, 2005 at 17:13 UTC
See your OS' documentation, as it'll have all the escape codes (`man 3 strftime` or some variation thereon should find it). In this particular case you probably want `strftime( "%d %b, %H:%M", localtime )`.	[reply] [d/l]