localtime shows array reference

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

(Mis?)Reading perl docs,

  my @timeData = localtime(time);
  print join(' ', @timeData);
  exit;
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shows

Time::tm=ARRAY(0x997a264)
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Should I be calling a module?

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Re: localtime shows array reference by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 25, 2011 at 06:22 UTC
Earlier in the program, you must have requested to override localtime with one that returns an object. You can access the builtin `localtime` using `my @timeData = CORE::localtime(time); print join(' ', @timeData);` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: localtime shows array reference by wind (Priest) on Apr 25, 2011 at 06:23 UTC
You're using Time::localtime somewhere, and that is turning the results of localtime into an object. Also note it is redundant to pass time as a parameter to localtime. `use Time::localtime; print "Object: ", join(' ', localtime), "\n"; print "Array: ", join(' ', CORE::localtime), "\n";` [download] By the way, to determine this all you needed to do was google Time::tm. The results promisingly return perldoc Time::tm which documents that it is a base class of Time::localtime and Time::gmtime.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: localtime shows array reference by Anonymous Monk on Apr 25, 2011 at 06:37 UTC
Add `print "$_\n", for %INC;` [download] And you'll see which modules are automatically loaded, I'm guessing Time::localtime Running `perl -V` would show something like ... Built under MSWin32 Compiled at Oct 16 2010 05:10:19 %ENV: PERL5LIB="fafafafa" PERL5OPT="-MTime::localtime" @INC: fafafafa C:/perl/site/5.12.2/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread C:/perl/site/5.12.2/lib C:/perl/5.12.2/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread C:/perl/5.12.2/lib .	[reply] [d/l] [select]