in reply to The day of today

when declaring multiple variables on one line, you should put them in parantheses.

my ($second, $minute, $hour, $dayOfMonth, $month, $yearOffset, $dayOfWeek, $dayOfYear, $daylightSavings) = localtime;

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Re: The day of today
by gtrain (Novice) on Mar 07, 2008 at 17:13 UTC
    Thanks all .... that looks much nicer to just specify the nth item in the array which localtime() has been sent to. Cheers!! gtrain
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      If you take the route of specifying the offset, I would recommend using a constant instead of a magic number. It makes thins a tad easier to read. 

      use constant DAY_OF_MONTH => 3;

my $day = (localtime)[DAY_OF_MONTH];

print "Day is @{ [ ( localtime )[DAY_OF_MONTH] ] }\n";

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      While I like the hackishness of the @{[()[]]} approach to forcing interpolation of executing code, I think it's too unweildy--it's hard to type and hard to read. If you really want to go this route, check out Interpolation--an interesting module that started out as a joke.


      TGI says moo

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