This ought to give you are start. Managing recuring calendar events and check out this code, written by someone else(unknown). All you need to do is figure out a hash, to link dates(as keys), with those days appointments(1..24 hours). So a hash of hashes might do it.

A GUI calendar with Tk or Gtk2 would be alot easier than commandline. Or by commandline, do you mean "not html or cgi" ?

If you can use Tk or Gtk2 (GUI's), look at Tk::MiniCalendar or Tk::ChooseDate. GUI's are easier, because you can let the user mouse click on a date from a calendar, pop up an text box, and let him enter the appointment and time. Perl/Gtk2 has a 'Calendar' widget too. See Gtk2 Simple Calendar/ Date Selector

If you are stuck with a true "commandline" program, you will need to work out a system, where you take user input, prompt for times and text, and do all sorts of prompting and confirming input. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Date::Calc qw(Calendar);
#usage cal monthnum  yesr; i.e. cal 8 2002 for AUG2002
#defaults to current month
my $month = shift || (localtime(time))[4]+ 1; #numeric for subroutine
my $year = shift || (localtime(time))[5] +1900;

my @cal = parseCalendar();

my @months = (undef,'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul',
'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec');
$month = $months[$month]; #change $month to 3-letter abbreviation

print "\n$month$year: ",'Mo  Tu  We  Th  Fr  Sa  Su',"\n"; 
my $i = 1;
foreach my $cal_line (@cal) {
print "  Week",$i++,": ";
foreach my $day (@$cal_line) {
$day ||= "  ";
print "$day  ";
}print "\n";
}print "\n";
exit;
#####################################################################
sub parseCalendar {
my $cal = Calendar($year, $month);
my @cal = split(/\n/, $cal);
splice(@cal, 0, 3); # get rid of the first three lines (don't need em)
+;
my @rv = map{$_ = substr($_, 1, length);[split /\s{4}|\s{2}/];}@cal;
return @rv;
}

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In reply to Re: A calendar tool (command-line version) by zentara
in thread A calendar tool (command-line version) by osssss

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