in reply to Is there a better way to print time in a HH:MM:SS format than sprintf

There's strftime in core module POSIX. It takes a format string and the output of gmtime or localtime as input.

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Re^2: Is there a better way to print time in a HH:MM:SS format than sprintf
by gargle (Chaplain) on Feb 03, 2006 at 07:17 UTC

    I thought about using strftime but it would give me the same 'problem': provide a format string

    I was looking actually for a module that would show HH:MM:SS by default.

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      Well, the POSIX::strftime way is shorter than printf: 

      use POSIX;
print strftime("%H:%M:%S", localtime);

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      since time (i.e. Now) is the default for localtime. And if you wrap this into a sub, its usage is even shorter: 
      sub TimeHMS {
  my $time = scalar(@_) ? shift(@_) : time;
  return strftime( "%H:%M:%S", localtime($time) );
} # TimeHMS
print TimeHMS();

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      Best regards,
      perl -e "s>>*F>e=>y)\*martinF)stronat)=>print,print v8.8.8.32.11.32"

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