Re: perlfaq4: How do I find yesterday's date?

Philip Newton <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hm, should we be teaching "@variable" in a FAQ?

What's wrong with "@variable"?  It's a perfectly legitimate 
thing to do, and many competent programmers use it often -- 
unlike "$variable", for which there are very few excuses.
The only thing odd about it is that "2002 10 25" is a strange 
way to write a date, so another possibility would be

    printf "%04d-%02d-%02d\n", @date;

or, if you want to keep Larry Rosler happy,

    printf "%.4d-%.2d-%.2d\n", @date;


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Keith C. Ivey <[email protected]>
Washington, DC