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Re: create file with current date for name

by Masem (Monsignor)
on Aug 07, 2001 at 20:10 UTC ( [id://102832]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to create file with current date for name

my $ymd = printf("%04d%02d%02d",$year+1900,$mon+1,$mday);
printf returns 1 if printing was successful, otherwise zero. Thus $ymd is 1; the print statement follows what printf has printed out.

Make that sprintf, and your problems are gone.

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