Another way of doing it is to use Date::Calc. 
# getting yesterday's date
use Date::Calc qw(Today_and_Now Today Add_Delta_YMD Add_Delta_DHMS);
# use Date::Calc to subtract one day from today's date
my ($year, $month, $day, $hours, $minutes, $seconds) = Add_Delta_DHMS(
+Today_and_Now(),-1,0,0,0);

# get date of last month by subtracting a month
my ($year2, $month2, $day2) = Add_Delta_YMD(Today(),0,-1,0);

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You realy didn't make it clear as to whether or not you just wanted the month or you wanted the exact date of last month from the present.

BMaximus

Update: ick .. took out Add_Delta_Days .. don't bloat code with stuff your not using :)

In reply to Re: date by BMaximus
in thread Yesterday's or last month's date? by renpai

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