in reply to Date::Manip ParseRecur help needed

Personally I find understanding Date::Manip::Recur patterns a bit too complicated for my taste. I prefer DateTime::Set - more verbose of course, but IMHO better understandable and therefore more maintainable and reusable:

use warnings; use strict; use DateTime; use DateTime::Set; my $fridays = DateTime::Set->from_recurrence( start => DateTime->new( year=>2020, month=>1, day=>1 ), before => DateTime->new( year=>2020, month=>6, day=>1 ), recurrence => sub { my $dt = shift; return $dt if $dt->is_infinite; if ( $dt->dow>5 ) { $dt->add(days=>12-$dt->dow) } elsif ( $dt->dow<5 ) { $dt->add(days=> 5-$dt->dow) } else { $dt->add(weeks=>1) } die $dt unless $dt->dow==5; # double-check return $dt; } ); my $iter = $fridays->iterator; while ( my $dt = $iter->next ) { print $dt->strftime("%A, %B %e %Y"), "\n"; } __END__ Friday, January 3 2020 Friday, January 10 2020 Friday, January 17 2020 Friday, January 24 2020 Friday, January 31 2020 Friday, February 7 2020 Friday, February 14 2020 Friday, February 21 2020 Friday, February 28 2020 Friday, March 6 2020 Friday, March 13 2020 Friday, March 20 2020 Friday, March 27 2020 Friday, April 3 2020 Friday, April 10 2020 Friday, April 17 2020 Friday, April 24 2020 Friday, May 1 2020 Friday, May 8 2020 Friday, May 15 2020 Friday, May 22 2020 Friday, May 29 2020