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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl - setting a variable ? Post 302349582 by pludi on Tuesday 1st of September 2009 09:45:19 AM
Old 09-01-2009
Try it like this:
Code:
#!/bin/perl -w

sub xxtime() {
        my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)=localtime(time);
        my $datetime = sprintf "%4d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d\n",$year+1900,$mon+1,$mday,$hour,$min,$sec;
        return $datetime;
}

my $datetime = xxtime();

print "\n time date equals $datetime\n";

With "my" you create a lexically scoped variable, meaning that variable is only valid within the innermost enclosing block. So the variable $datetime you declare in xxtime() is only valid within this function. To use it outside you have to assign the value return()ed to a new variable.
 

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