Countdown program

EmmittSmith has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hey, I started programming perl about 2 years (or so) ago. However, I've been busy for the last oh year hehe and I've just gotten back into perl. Anyways... I want to make a countdown program... Like to countdown the amount of days/hours/minutes/seconds left in the school year or whatever. But I'm not sure how to put the calendar together; some months have 31 days and other's don't. How could I properly count down the amount of days/months? Should I just declare each month an Array or make a multidemensional-hash? Is there a more efficent way?

Thanks,
Emmitt

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Re: Countdown program by mattriff (Chaplain) on Apr 21, 2002 at 19:00 UTC
Here's a program that already does it: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/nms-cgi/countdown/ That's part of the nms project (run by davorg and gellyfish, among other people). Even if you're looking to write your own, it's worth studying how they've implemented it. - Matt Riffle	[reply]
Re: Countdown program by belg4mit (Prior) on Apr 21, 2002 at 18:54 UTC
You might find Date::Calc useful. Specfically the Delta methods. `-- perl -pew "s/\b;([mnst])/'$1/g"`	[reply]