Re: TIMTOWTDI Challenge: Create a filename

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I tend to go with a variant of thezip's method, but I flow the results of the localtime slice through a coderef to make the month and years readable to an ordinary human. So it goes something like this:

my $fn = sub {
        sprintf
            "$base_name-%04d-%02d-%02d-%02d%02d%02d.ext",
            $_[5] + 1900, $_[4]+1, reverse(@_[0..3])
    }->(localtime);
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Like thezip, I use a YYYY-MM-DD format so that files sort nicely in a directory.

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Re^2: TIMTOWTDI Challenge: Create a filename by dwhite20899 (Friar) on Jan 09, 2009 at 14:03 UTC
grinder has the right idea, keeping in human readable in sort order, that's what I do, but I also toss in $$ (process id) because I have many processes making temp files, and do have collisions.	[reply]

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