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

use Time::Piece;
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my $t = localtime;
print $t->mdy("/");# 02/29/2000