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

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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Re^3: Is there a better way to print time in a HH:MM:SS format than sprintf
by strat (Canon) on Feb 03, 2006 at 09:12 UTC

    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,
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