I'm basically trying to replace this: 
my $sth=$dbh->prepare(
          "SELECT DATE_FORMAT(NOW(), '%M %D, %Y')");
my $rv=$sth->execute;
my ($date) = $sth->fetchrow_array; $sth->finish;

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with something that doesn't call the database. it seems a bit silly that this code is:
  1. in a loop
  2. the statement isn't prepared outside of the loop
  3. hits the database multiple times for a date when perl could do it
  4. could at least be prepare_cached
so i started looking at POSIX::strftime. only thing is, i can't find a modifier that will add the ordinal suffix to the day of the month. i've read through the perldoc for POSIX.pm, i've read  man strftime ... i've even done some googling ... nothing.

the database query returns: October 22nd, 2004

what i thought would be the equiv. POSIX compliant format 

use POSIX qw( strftime );
my $date =  strftime "%B %d, %Y", localtime;

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returns: October 22, 2004

can i accomplish the 'suffixing' of the ordinal with the POSIX formats, or should I just handle the date outside of the loop?

In reply to POSIX strftime format question by geektron

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