Re: [MLUG] formatting dates in perl

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Mike Miller wrote:

> P.S.  I had read the strftime man page but I had no clue on how to use
>       strftime in perl.  So that was very cool.

Ah, now this is the real lesson:  

Since perl, for better or for worse, is just a hand-maiden for the Unix
Way, if you ever know that you want to do something that's at all "unixy",
you can be pretty sure that perl will have a way to do it.  Some of those
ways may require that you have a module or two installed, (especially
POSIX.pm) but things like this should "just work", and the way they work
should not be surprising to anybody who groks unix.

Often, the easiest way to find how perl handles some function or library
routine is to do a "man perlfunc" followed by a search for, e.g., "time".

jking


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