A confusing node title, but please read on...

I'm trying to come up with a simple little script that can spit out a week's worth of days (5 work days), regardless of what day I execute the script on.

For example, if I run the script on Saturday (i.e. the 6th day of the week), I want it to output the previous Monday through Friday.

If I execute the script on Wednesday, it should output the Monday of that week, Tuesday, Wednesday (the day I run it), tomorrow (Thursday) and the day after (Friday).

This is more of a math question than Perl I suppose. Is there an easy way to find the closest week to the day I execute the script? It will either be the previous week, or the current week, depending on which day I run the script. Something in Date::Calc? Some other module?

Thanks.

In reply to Calculating the "nearest" week by hacker

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