in reply to Need to print Epoch Seconds!!!

time() gives you that integer, but only if you call it in scalar context. RTFM.

Updated. jdporter admonishes himself to RTFM.

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Re^2: Need to print Epoch Seconds!!!
by Fletch (Bishop) on May 10, 2005 at 03:16 UTC

    Context, schmontext; time returns the same thing. 

    $ perl -le 'my( $l ) = time; my $s = time; print join( "\n", $l, $s )'
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