Sweet jesus and sweet sassy molassy, you *Sir* are a gentleman AND a scholar.

Next step is for me to a) apply it to the thousands of data points, and b) figure out how it works!

You guys at perlmonks are amazing at figuring code out and helping come up with awesome solutions, but for newbie programmers, it's hard to learn from your examples because they're complex and have no comments! If you don't mind, could you help me understand a little more how your code works, maybe in PM? I hate taking without understanding the how and why behind the scenes. Or maybe I could just ask a few questions?

As an aside, I figured out a solution as well, but it took me about 15 hours, was ~250 lines of code and went through every type conditional overlap case (ie, a is within b, b is within a, a begins overlap with b, b begins overlap with a, a and b start together b ends first, a and b start together a ends first, a and b end together a starts first, a and b end together b starts first .... a lot of 'if thens', and for each of those a case where a is bigger and a case where b is bigger). Your solution is so much more elegant and ... win.

Thank you for the help!!!

-Alan

In reply to Re^2: Date Array Convolution by alanonymous
in thread Date Array Convolution by alanonymous

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