Here is an update that does exactly as you ask (Monday = 1 and Sunday = 7) and iterates a maximum of 6 times - ie it adds initialises the array with int($days/7) and just adds the remaining 0-6 to the appropriate elements. This is as fast and efficient as it gets. 

my $days = 72;
my $firstday = 5;
# for each 7 days each element gets a value of +1
# initialise 8 array elements
my @daycounts = (int($days/7)) x 8; 
$days = $days%7;

for my $day_num( ($firstday-1) .. ($days+$firstday-2) ) {
    $daycounts[1+$day_num%7]++;
}

# now print it out nice and pretty

my %weekdays = (
    1 => Monday,
    2 => Tuesday,
    3 => Wednesday,
    4 => Thursday,
    5 => Friday,
    6 => Saturday,
    7 => Sunday);

for my $day_num(1..7) {
    print "$daycounts[$day_num]\t$weekdays{$day_num}\n";
}

# here it is as a one liner
$daycounts[1+$_%7]++ for ($firstday-1)..($days+$firstday-2);

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cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: How Many Mondays in Date Range? by tachyon
in thread How Many Mondays in Date Range? by THuG

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