Re: Date in filename

One method of many.....

use POSIX;

my $filename=POSIX::strftime("%Y%m%d",localtime(time()))."_foo.dat";
open F,">$filename" or die "error opening $filename : $!";
...
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Re: Re: Date in filename by Anonymous Monk on Jul 25, 2001 at 17:06 UTC
Thanks lhoward. Most appreciated!	[reply]

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