Need date in format 20060913 1

[MoshiachNow]

HI,

What is the fastest way to get the date in format 20060913 ?

Thanks

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[Rieekan]

That really depends on how you're gathering the date you need. But I'd suggest checking out the sprintf function.

- George

 

[PaulTEG]

and the substr function, and perhaps the Date::Manip module, but as George says, it all depends on where your dates coming from,

my @dates=localtime();
$dates[5]+=1900;
$dates[4]++;
my $date = sprintf("%0.2d", $dates[5]).sprintf("%0.2d", $dates[4]).sprintf("%0.2d", $dates[3]);
print $date;

will return the system time in the format you require

Paul
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[MoshiachNow]

Thank you guys.

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[Kirsle]

Also you could check out Time::Format -

http://search.cpan.org/~roode/Time-Format-1.02/Format.pm

it requires simple installation (save the .pm file to your Perl lib as Time/Format.pm)

use Time::Format qw(time_format);
print time_format ('yyyymmdd');

This module is useful when you do a lot of time format operations, rather than dealing with localtime and manipulating variables from that yourself.

 

[MoshiachNow]

Thanks to all,
ended up yesterday with :

my $TIME=localtime;
my ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst) = localtime(time);
$year += 1900;
$mon+=1;
unless ($mon =~ /\d\d/) {
$mon = "0" . $mon;
}
my $DATE=$year . $mon . $mday;


However will try the Time::Format later on.

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[KevinADC]

use POSIX ('strftime');
my $date = strftime "%Y%m%d", localtime;
print $date;

 

[PaulTEG]

Moshaich,

your bit of script will be susceptible to single digit days ...

--Paul

Paul
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[MoshiachNow]

right,thanks.

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