in reply to How to get time in perl?

Just call localtime in scalar context: 
my $foo = localtime;
print $foo;

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Update: Drat. Indeed the output from localtime follows the ctime() format, which does not include AM/PM. It does return a 24-hour time, but that's not what the OP wanted.

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Re^2: How to get time in perl?
by GrandFather (Saint) on Jul 07, 2005 at 01:47 UTC

    or indeed:

    print scalar localtime;

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    Perl is Huffman encoded by design.
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      Nice, has that always worked in Perl 5 or is it a feature of newer Perl versions ?

      There is one problem, the OP explicitly asked for AM/PM in the output, this does not give me that. Perhaps it does in some locales?

      Cheers,
      R.

      Pereant, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt!
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        Ouch. OP did ask for AM/PM, but I simply replied to trammell's post and didn't notice that part.

        I'm a newbie to Perl (about 3 months) so I don't know how long you may have been able to do that with localtime. I presume for as long as localtime has been around.

        scalar has been around for a fair while. Scalar and List context are fairly fundamental to Perl.

        Perl is Huffman encoded by design.
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