in reply to Re: Re: Localtime
in thread How to get 3-letter month abbreviations ?

The module Calendar::Simple will do it. Here is how you could use it to get the days in the current month (it gets the last day of the last week of the month): 
use strict;
use Calendar::Simple;

my $mon = (localtime)[4] + 1;
my $yr = ((localtime)[5] + 1900);

my @month = calendar($mon, $yr);
print $month[-1][-1],"\n";

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Localtime
by powerhouse (Friar) on Feb 14, 2003 at 23:52 UTC
    Thank you, Tall_Man!

    One more question based on your answer...

    The $month returns just the number of days in that month. If I'm using CGI.pm's popup_menu function, how do I get the 28 days returned because this is Febuary to have 1-28 days in the popup menu? I know I can then get todays date and have that as the default by using -default=>$day.

    I just don't know how to go about putting the values and labels for the days of the month, unless I don't use CGI.pm and just do it this way:

    $counter = 0;
$option_List = "";
while ($counter <= $month) {
$counter++;
$option_List .= qq~<option value="$counter">$counter</option>\n~;
}
$html_content .= qq~<select name="day" size="1">
$option_List
</select>
~;

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    But then that would not work for what I'm doing, because I'm using CGI.pm's sticky behavior, so that when they change the date, it will be selected by default.


    Any ideas on how to do it with just a max number(28)?
    thx,
    Richard
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