in reply to Splittin the Date

Just use split(/\s+/, `date`);.

You can rewrite that to 

@a = split for (`date`);

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If you like that better. If you look at split, it tells you that it uses whitespace as its default delimiter.

Hopethis helps,

Jeroen
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Re: Re: Splittin the Date
by Tyke (Pilgrim) on Mar 01, 2001 at 20:18 UTC
    The guys that port this to Win32 without thinking are going to wonder why it hangs at `date`. On dos, date waits for input.
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