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

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my $now = localtime; my @t = split /\s/, $now; splice @t, 3, 1; $now = join ' ', @t;
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That won't work very well during the first nine days of the month:

$ perl -le'
my $now = localtime 1260043200;
print $now;              
my @t = split /\s/, $now;
splice @t, 3, 1;
$now = join " ", @t;
print $now;
'
Sat Dec  5 12:00:00 2009
Sat Dec  12:00:00 2009
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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 23:49 UTC
Nice one! I forgot the "+" in `my @t = split /\s+/, $now;` That would have been an ugly bug.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Using split, splice, and join to remove time from scalar context return of localtime() by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 18, 2009 at 00:59 UTC
That's why I used `split " "` in my benchmark. I didn't stop to think if such a situation existed, but I figured it would be safer.	[reply] [d/l]

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