Hello again wise monks :)

I have a list of weekdays:

my @weekdays = qw(
Today
Yesterday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
);

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I need to format these weekdays into an absolute numerical date based off of scalar localtime. eg:

my ($local_weekday, $local_month, $local_numerical_date) = split (/\s+
+/, scalar localtime), 3;

__END__
Fri Apr 28
'Yesterday' would be '27'

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I need to use $local_weekday and $local_numerical_date (eg. 'fri 28') to format @weekdays from the list. eg. 'wednesday' to eg. '26'.

Also, i never need to check what the numerical date in the future is, it is always current date or earlier. I am pretty sure there is a way to loop while subtracting but I cant figure it out lol.

If I can be any more clear on anything please let me know. I have tried to explain it the best i can :)

EDIT: changed 'wednesday 27' to just '27' and added 'Yesterday' would be '27' to __END__

In reply to Convert weekday to numerical date by james28909

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