-- I have a very basic script:

my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$foo) = localtime time;
$time_now = "$hour$min";

-- I purposely leave out the ":" because i want the whole number.

How come when the time is 10:05, i print $time_now , and it returns '105' ?? It should be 1005. WHERE DID MY EXTRA '0' GO ? It only does this with zero's. If the time was 11:35, it would print 1135 just like i want it to. anyone know how to stop it from doing that ? Thanks in advance for your help :)

Hi mtorres,

It's not rounding the numbers. localtime returns the number of minutes without prepending the 0 on miuntes under 10. You'll have to fix it by doing somthing like this:


~Charlie

ahh. I see what you're talking about.

also, i tried your fix, and it worked perfect. thanks for the help.

No worries :)

This fix might be a little faster too:


~Charlie