I was today tasked with produceing code which took a date in the format CCYYMMDD, printing out a message if it was not the last day of a month. For the real job I used a well notated sub routine but wondered how short I could make a stand alone program. With a little help from the vaults of The Monks, the leap year bit(I used the Date::leapyear module), I came up with this 
my ($y, $m, $d) = (substr($ARGV[0],0,4),substr($ARGV[0],4,2),substr($A
+RGV[0],6,2));
my $ld = (31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31)[$m-1];
if (($m-1) == 1){$ld++ if(!($y%100) && !($y%400))||(($y % 100)&&!($y%4
+))}
print "$ARGV[0] is NOT a month end day\n" unless $d eq $ld;

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I'm sure that some of the Monks, Saints and Gods around the monestery could make this look like War & Peace but it gave a warm feeling of satisfaction.

I'd also like to thank everyone in the monestery for there continuing help

In reply to Last day of the month. Any shorter by Scarborough

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