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

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Re: getting a 2 digit readout no matter what

John W. Krahn

2006-10-04, 9:57 pm

Paul wrote:
> Hello all.

Hello,

> Trying to get a 2 digit readout from $hour pulled from
> localtime. How can I do this?

my $hour = sprintf '%02d', ( localtime )[ 2 ];

Or:

use POSIX 'strftime';
my $hour = strftime '%H', localtime;

John
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