in reply to list slice

By going down this path, you are preventing yourself from checking if stat returned an error.

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Re^2: list slice
by rir (Vicar) on Jul 21, 2006 at 21:20 UTC
    This is not a path I recommend; it may fail for time travelers: 
    my $year =
   (
      ( localtime(
           (  (stat("."))[9] || die "stat die"  )
                 )
      )[5] || die "localtime die" 
   )
   + 1900;

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    rir
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