I'm trying to use Date::Manip::Recur to generate a list of dates for a room scheduling application, and I'm having trouble getting it to work correctly.

Per the docs, there's an OO way and a functional way of doing this.

The functional way works:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Date::Manip;
@date = ParseRecur("0:0:1*1,3,5:0:0:0","May 25 2010","6/1/2010","8/30/
+2010");# every MWF between the two dates.
foreach $i (@date){
print "The date is $i\n";
}
exit;

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results in:

The date is 2010060200:00:00
The date is 2010060400:00:00
The date is 2010060700:00:00
The date is 2010060900:00:00
The date is 2010061100:00:00
The date is 2010061400:00:00
The date is 2010061600:00:00
The date is 2010061800:00:00
The date is 2010062100:00:00

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and so on.

But

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Date::Manip;

print "Starting....\n";

$recur = new Date::Manip::Recur;

$start = $recur->new_date();
$end   = $recur->new_date();
$base = $recur->new_date();

$err=$start->parse("Jun 1 2010");
print "start err is $err \n";

$err=$end->parse("Aug 30 2010");
print "end err is $err \n";

$err=$base->parse("May 25 2010");
print "base err is $err \n";

$err=$recur->frequency("0:0:1*1,3,5:0:0:0");
print "freq err is $err \n";

@date = $recur->dates();
print "dates err is $err \n";

foreach $i (@date){
print "The date is $i\n";
}
exit;

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gives me:

Starting....
start err is 0 
end err is 0 
base err is 0 
freq err is 0 
dates err is 0

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And nothing more.

I cannot even get the OO example given in the docs to work.

anyone here used this, and can point out my no doubt boneheaded mistake, before I bug the author?

In reply to Date::Manip::Recur is not returning a list by desertrat

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