Re: one liner automagic strftime()

[hdb]

In the substitution operator the right hand side is evaluated in scalar context and thus localtime returns the formatted date as a string as per documentation:

use strict;
use warnings;

my @x = localtime 1503403724;
print "@x\n";

my $x = localtime 1503403724;
print "$x\n";

my $z = "ccc";
$z =~ s/ccc/wantarray()?"list":"scalar"/e;
print "$z\n";

[seki]

Arf. So no magic, just the list / scalar context. I have always missed that paragraph of the localtime() perldoc... Thanks.

[hdb]

Difficult to say as "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (Arthur C. Clarke)

Perl surely falls into that category...