Steven W. Orr [steveo@xxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> On Tuesday, Oct 21st 2003 at 11:44 -0400, quoth Jake McHenry:
>
> =>Hi everyone, this is a pretty simple question I believe.. but I can't seem
> =>to get it...
> =>
> =>I have a perl script that does a system call to get the date.... everything
> =>works fine, but the returned date has a line return character and I can't
> =>get rid of it... here's my perl script..
> =>
> =>$date = `/bin/date +%Y%m%d`;
> =>
> =>I've tried system("/bin/date ... ");
> =>and exec("/bin/date....");
> =>
> =>all return the date with the line character... how can I get rid of it?
>
> The easy answer is:
>
> chomp ($date);
> see: perldoc -f chomp
>
> The correct answer is to not start a seperate process just to find out
> what time it is.
Right! In other words, don't execute a system(or backticks or
exec) command when there is a perl internal function that can
give you the same thing. What you need is the 'localtime'
function - do
perldoc -f localtime
at a command prompt to display the excellent perldocs.
>
> You should definitely buy the Perl Cookbook from O'Reilly. All your
> questions will be answered.
Excellent suggestion! I also regularly use "Learning Perl"
for quick easy reference, and "Programming Perl" for all
around Perl reference - all O'Reilly books. But the
Cookbook is a must have IMHO.
--
Hardy Merrill
Red Hat, Inc.
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