Today's Date in Perl in MM/DD/YYYY format

Question

I\'m working on a Perl program at work and stuck on (what I think is) a trivial problem. I simply need to build a string in the format \'06/13/2012\' (always 10 characters,

Answer 1

You can use Time::Piece, which shouldn't need installing as it is a core module and has been distributed with Perl 5 since version 10.

use Time::Piece;

my $date = localtime->strftime('%m/%d/%Y');
print $date;

output

06/13/2012

Update

You may prefer to use the dmy method, which takes a single parameter which is the separator to be used between the fields of the result, and avoids having to specify a full date/time format

my $date = localtime->dmy('/');

This produces an identical result to that of my original solution