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    * The third wednesday of the month
    * The first monday after the first tuesday
    * Every friday

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Just in case you need a data structure to store this, you can use DateTime::Event::ICal from the datetime project

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Re: Re: Re: Natural language text processing
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 09, 2003 at 19:10 UTC
    Does it do Southern? "A week come Sunday"? "Sunday week", "Thursday last", etc. How about random stuff "Three moons ago" "Six fortnights" This is hopeless.
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      :) And don't forget people from outside the US. My scottish friend is always saying things like "half to five" and such...

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