PERL Beginners - Re: getting a 2 digit readout no matter what

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Re: getting a 2 digit readout no matter what

Igor Sutton

2006-10-04, 9:57 pm

> This is running on a sun box, so I also tried pulling from:
> $string = system "date"; but if one digit, it will not put a "0" in front.

Don't do that. There's a lot of date and time modules waiting for you at
CPAN.

But this doesn't only seems to assign "0". And it prints output
> correctly, but not assigning it to my string.

By the way, if you want to know how to get the output of some external
command, you can check the qx// operator, that works the same as backticks.

$string = `date`;

Remember this approach is not portable.

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Igor Sutton Lopes <igor.sutton@gmail.com>

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