Re: How to get time in perl?

Just call localtime in scalar context:

my $foo = localtime;
print $foo;
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Update: Drat. Indeed the output from localtime follows the ctime() format, which does not include AM/PM. It does return a 24-hour time, but that's not what the OP wanted.

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Re^2: How to get time in perl? by GrandFather (Saint) on Jul 07, 2005 at 01:47 UTC
or indeed: `print scalar localtime;` [download] Perl is Huffman encoded by design.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: How to get time in perl? by Random_Walk (Prior) on Jul 07, 2005 at 17:13 UTC
Nice, has that always worked in Perl 5 or is it a feature of newer Perl versions ? There is one problem, the OP explicitly asked for AM/PM in the output, this does not give me that. Perhaps it does in some locales? Cheers, R. Pereant, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt!	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: How to get time in perl? by GrandFather (Saint) on Jul 07, 2005 at 22:21 UTC
Ouch. OP did ask for AM/PM, but I simply replied to trammell's post and didn't notice that part. I'm a newbie to Perl (about 3 months) so I don't know how long you may have been able to do that with localtime. I presume for as long as localtime has been around. scalar has been around for a fair while. Scalar and List context are fairly fundamental to Perl. Perl is Huffman encoded by design.	[reply]


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