Well I was troubled by that problem too.

What did I do(I only needed the month,day and year)...

my date = scalar localtime;
my($month,$day,$year) = unpack("x4 a3 x1 a2 x10 a4",$date);
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So maybe it's also good to check the unpack function. It's used when you got fixed length thingies to parse.


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