On Mar 7, Ronald J Kimball said: >On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 04:23:12PM +0000, David Gillen wrote: >> print "It is $weekday the $day th of $month"; Oh, and if you want the string "th" to follow the $day variable, then you can do something like print "... the ${day}th of $month"; -- MIDN 4/C PINYAN, NROTCURPI, US Naval Reserve japhy@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ http://pinyaj.stu.rpi.edu/ PerlMonth - An Online Perl Magazine http://www.perlmonth.com/ The Perl Archive - Articles, Forums, etc. http://www.perlarchive.com/Thread Previous | Thread Next