Re: A Better Way To Get Days Since Monday of Last Week

my $today = (localtime)[6];
my $target_day = 1; # monday
$target_day -= 7;   # last week
printf "%d days since target day\n", $today - $target_day;
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Re^2: A Better Way To Get Days Since Monday of Last Week by Tommy (Chaplain) on Jun 07, 2005 at 15:54 UTC
Purrrrrrrrfect. Why do these 'simple logic' questions evade me all the time?! What you show is _exactly_ what i was looking for —a mathematical solution rather than a hard coded if/then sequence (really that's what i was doing) covering all the bases. Imagine doing that for something with hundreds or thousands of possible states! Sheesh! I feel so stupid. -- Tommy Butler, a.k.a. Tommy	[reply]