in reply to Re: Using the DATA file handle for ARGV
in thread Using the DATA file handle for ARGV
The point of this is to replace *ARGV with *DATA so you can use the <> operator to read from the DATA filehandle instead of files named on the command line. So your input line should be:
my $timestamp = <>;Aaron B.
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