Re: one liner automagic strftime()

In the substitution operator the right hand side is evaluated in scalar context and thus localtime returns the formatted date as a string as per documentation:

use strict;
use warnings;

my @x = localtime 1503403724;
print "@x\n";

my $x = localtime 1503403724;
print "$x\n";

my $z = "ccc";
$z =~ s/ccc/wantarray()?"list":"scalar"/e;
print "$z\n";
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Re^2: one liner automagic strftime() by seki (Scribe) on Aug 23, 2017 at 13:03 UTC
Arf. So no magic, just the list / scalar context. I have always missed that paragraph of the localtime() perldoc... Thanks. The best programs are the ones written when the programmer is supposed to be working on something else. - Melinda Varian	[reply]
Re^3: one liner automagic strftime() by hdb (Monsignor) on Aug 24, 2017 at 07:45 UTC
Difficult to say as "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (Arthur C. Clarke) Perl surely falls into that category...	[reply]


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