Yes looking at the MySql that would work nicely I guess. However it would still be nice to do it in perl so the variable can be used as a title in the report ie report for week beginning xxx

I have found an answer that could be adapted for my request at http://datetime.perl.org/index.cgi?FAQSampleCalculations Thanks everyone for your input

# The date and target (1 is Monday, 7 Sunday)
my $dt = DateTime->new(year => 1998, month => 4, day => 3); # Friday
my $target = 6; # Saturday

# Get the day of the week for the given date
my $dow = $dt->day_of_week();

# Apply the corrections
my ($prev, $next) = ($dt->clone(), $dt->clone());

if ($dow == $target) {
    $prev->add( days => -7 );
    $next->add( days =>  7 );
} else {
    my $correction = ( $target - $dow + 7 ) % 7;
    $prev->add( days => $correction - 7 );
    $next->add( days => $correction );
}

# $prev is 1998-03-28, $next is 1998-04-04

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In reply to Re: Is there an easy way to get the start date of the current week? by ramjamman
in thread Is there an easy way to get the start date of the current week? by ramjamman

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