Win32::StreamNames - new version!

My CPAN module Win32::StreamNames had a bug - I know, unbelieveable. Happens to the best of us. The symptoms were that empty data streams were not returned. It is now fixed in version 1.03 which I just uploaded.

The bug was an unexpected (and undocumented) behaviour of the Win32 API BackupRead when it finds an empty stream, and I discovered the fix just by experimentation. Good old Microsoft, guarenteed to keep life interesting.

Thanks to Frederic Medico for reporting the error.

Yet another time calculation in Perl

This is specifically for a delegate I am teaching right now. If I understand the requirements correctly, we hae two times in HH:MM:SS format and we wish to calculate the difference. I know, what if the times are on different days? No answer was given to that one, so I have assumed they are on the same day (today, to be exact).
This will probably change because the specification is a bit "wooly".

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Time::Local;

sub str2time
{
   my $in = shift;
   my ($hour, $min, $sec) = split (/:/, $in);
   my ($mday,$mon,$year) = (localtime(time))[3,4,5];
   my $retn;
 
   # timelocal throws an exception on an invalid date/time
   eval {
      $retn = timelocal($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year);
   };
 
   return $retn;   # undef on error
}

print "Please enter the first time in HH:MM:SS format: ";
my $intime = <STDIN>;
chomp $intime;

my $time1 = str2time($intime);

die "Invalid time: $intime\n" if !defined $time1;
  
print "Please enter the 2nd   time in HH:MM:SS format: ";
$intime = <STDIN>;
chomp $intime;

my $time2 = str2time($intime);

die "Invalid time: $intime\n" if !defined $time1;


my $diff;
if ( $time1 > $time2 ) {
    $diff = $time1 - $time2
}
else {
    $diff = $time2 - $time1
}

my $mins  = int($diff / 60);
my $hours = int($mins / 60);
$mins     = $mins - ($hours * 60);
my $secs  = $diff - ($mins  * 60);

printf "Difference: %02d:%02d:%02d\n", $hours,$mins,$secs;