I got it. This one is a pretty lighthanded way to do it I think (cheap but effective): 
use strict;
use lib '~/mylib/lib/site_perl/5.6.0';
use Date::Calc qw(      Day_of_Week
                        Day_of_Week_to_Text
                        Days_in_Month
                        Month_to_Text
);

my $searchday = 2; # Tuesday
my $month = 5; # May
my $year = 2002;

my $numdays = Days_in_Month($year,$month);

my $count = 0;

for(my $date=1;$date<=$numdays;$date++) {
        if($searchday == (Day_of_Week($year,$month,$date)) ) {  $count
+++; }
}

print "There are $count ".Day_of_Week_to_Text($searchday)."s in ".Mont
+h_to_Text($month).".\n";

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Can you dig it?

In reply to Re: Re: Counting number of a particular day of the month. by ninja-joe
in thread Counting number of a particular day of the month. by ninja-joe

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