=head1 NAME
-perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 10126 $)
+perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 10394 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
you can. Is that the pencil's fault? Of course it isn't.
The date and time functions supplied with Perl (gmtime and localtime)
-supply adequate information to determine the year well beyond 2000
-(2038 is when trouble strikes for 32-bit machines). The year returned
-by these functions when used in a list context is the year minus 1900.
-For years between 1910 and 1999 this I<happens> to be a 2-digit decimal
-number. To avoid the year 2000 problem simply do not treat the year as
-a 2-digit number. It isn't.
+supply adequate information to determine the year well beyond 2000 and
+2038. The year returned by these functions when used in a list
+context is the year minus 1900. For years between 1910 and 1999 this
+I<happens> to be a 2-digit decimal number. To avoid the year 2000
+problem simply do not treat the year as a 2-digit number. It isn't.
When gmtime() and localtime() are used in scalar context they return
a timestamp string that contains a fully-expanded year. For example,
break Y2K, people do." See http://www.perl.org/about/y2k.html for
a longer exposition.
+=head2 Does Perl have a Year 2038 problem?
+
+No, all of Perl's built in date and time functions and modules will
+work to about 2 billion years before and after 1970.
+
+Many systems cannot count time past the year 2038. Older versions of
+Perl were dependent on the system to do date calculation and thus
+shared their 2038 bug.
+
=head1 Data: Strings
=head2 How do I validate input?
=head2 How do I reset an each() operation part-way through?
-Using C<keys %hash> in scalar context returns the number of keys in
-the hash I<and> resets the iterator associated with the hash. You may
-need to do this if you use C<last> to exit a loop early so that when
-you re-enter it, the hash iterator has been reset.
+(contributed by brian d foy)
+
+You can use the C<keys> or C<values> functions to reset C<each>. To
+simply reset the iterator used by C<each> without doing anything else,
+use one of them in void context:
+
+ keys %hash; # resets iterator, nothing else.
+ values %hash; # resets iterator, nothing else.
+
+See the documentation for C<each> in L<perlfunc>.
=head2 How can I get the unique keys from two hashes?
=head1 REVISION
-Revision: $Revision: 10126 $
+Revision: $Revision: 10394 $
-Date: $Date: 2007-10-27 21:29:20 +0200 (Sat, 27 Oct 2007) $
+Date: $Date: 2007-12-09 18:47:15 +0100 (Sun, 09 Dec 2007) $
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