Re: Using split, splice, and join to remove time from scalar context return of localtime()

You're forgetting that POSIX has a strftime routine that can generate the desired format directly rather than mushing up a string.

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Re^2: Using split, splice, and join to remove time from scalar context return of localtime() by jffry (Hermit) on Dec 17, 2009 at 22:09 UTC
Got it. Thanks! `use POSIX qw (strftime); $now = strftime('%a %b %e %Y', localtime);` [download]	[reply] [d/l]