mtime manipulation 1

[icetnet]

I like the output of the $mtime variable in the stat array.

print scalar localtime($mtime);
or
print scalar gmtime($mtime);

Tue May 8 19:56:35 2007

however, I need it in the format of

Tue, May 8 2007 19:56:35

how would I manipulate this? I'm smart enough to be stupid here.

 

[KevinADC]

you can use the POSIX module and the sftime function, or:

my ($wd,$m,$d,$t,$y) =  (split /\s+/,localtime(time))[0..4];
print "$wd, $m $d $y $t";

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[KevinADC]

use $mtime in place of time in the above code.

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[Kirsle]

On Windows, use Win32::FileTime

http://search.cpan.org/~robau/Win32-FileTime-0.04/lib/Win32/FileTime.pm

I haven't found how to do it on Linux yet.

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[icetnet]

Thanks Kevin,

I forgot to mention that I needed the code to be as portable as possible. I didn't even think of using split. Good call. Works great on the platforms I've tested so far.

Bill