note BooK <p>If you want to follow [blakem] advice and use the POSIX module, here is how to do it. There is no newline here, plus you don't fork an external process just to fetch the date.</p> <code>use POSIX qw/ strftime /; # standard module $today = strftime("%D", localtime); # localtime in list context </code> <p>You could even do it this other way, but be careful with embedded %-sign in your variables. That might bite you.</p> <code>use POSIX qw/ strftime /; open trf, ">/tmp/.$handle"; print trf strftime("$handle|$crpw|$first_name|$last_name|$email_addy|0|%D", localtime); close trf;</code> 108073 108073