Re: Date Extraction

[CombatSquirrel]

perldoc -f localtime should help you; here is your code:

my @time = localtime;
my $time = sprintf "%04d" . "%02d" x 5, 
                   $time[5] + 1900,   # year
                   $time[4] + 1,      # month
                   @time[3, 2, 1, 0]; # day, hour, minute, second
print $time;

Hope this helped.
CombatSquirrel.

Update: Consider using one of the following modules:

1.) Time::Format. Example:

use Time::Format qw/%time/;

my $time = $time{'yyyymmddhhmmss'};
print $time;

2.) Date::Format. Example:

use Date::Format;

my $time = strftime "%Y%m%d%H%M%S", @{[localtime]};
print $time;

Cheers.

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Entropy is the tendency of everything going to hell.

[Aragorn]

When dealing with localtime and similar functions, I'd like to name the elements that it returns explicitly:

my ($sec, $min, $hour, $day, $mon, $year) = (localtime)[0..5];
my $time = sprintf "%04d" . "%02d" x 5,
                   $year + 1900,
                   $mon + 1,
                   $day, $hour, $min, $sec;
print $time;

And presto! Self-documenting code :-)

Arjen

[ysth]

Obligatory mention of Time::Piece:

use Time::Piece;
my $t = localtime;
printf "%.4d"."%.2d"x5, $t->year, $t->mon, $t->mday, $t->hour, $t->min
+, $t->sec;