in reply to Re^6: Yesterday Date
in thread Yesterday Date

OK, good point, now what does this line do?

print $d, $/;

can I use the result with just this:

print "$d";


Thanks!

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Re^8: Yesterday Date
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 05, 2008 at 17:51 UTC

    $/ is a fancy (and possibly silly) way of saying "\n"

    By the way, putting quotes around nothing but a variable ("$d") is useless, weird and confusing.