(Ovid) Re: Getting Day Of Month

One way is to install Date::Manip. Then, extract out the month, day, and year with a regex. Create an array with the days of the week.

use Date::Manip;

my @dayOfWeek = qw(Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sat
+urday);
my ( $month, $day, $year ) = ( 5, 25, 2002 );
my $day = &Date_DayOfWeek( $month, $day, $year );
print $dayOfWeek[ $day ];
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And no doubt somebody is going to look that date up and say that it is not a Monday... =8-)

According to Date::Manip, it's a Saturday :)

Cheers,
Ovid

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Re: (Ovid) Re: Getting Day Of Month by danger (Priest) on Jan 03, 2001 at 01:22 UTC
An alternative to Date::Manip is the Date::Calc module which also provides hordes of date utility functions (and it is a C lib so it is fairly quick). `#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Date::Calc qw/Day_of_Week/; my @days = qw/Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday/; my $dow = $days[ Day_of_Week(2002, 5, 25) ]; print "$dow\n"; __END__` [download] Several have mentioned simple ways to do it yourself, but if you need more date manipulation than your post suggests (things like differences between dates, business days, etc), I recommend checking out one of the modules -- it isn't hard to work with dates, but it isn't hard to work with dates incorrectly either :-)	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: (Ovid) Re: Getting Day Of Month
by danger (Priest) on Jan 03, 2001 at 01:22 UTC

An alternative to Date::Manip is the Date::Calc module which also provides hordes of date utility functions (and it is a C lib so it is fairly quick).

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Date::Calc qw/Day_of_Week/;

my @days = qw/Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday
              Thursday Friday Saturday/;

my $dow = $days[ Day_of_Week(2002, 5, 25) ];
print "$dow\n";
__END__
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Several have mentioned simple ways to do it yourself, but if you need more date manipulation than your post suggests (things like differences between dates, business days, etc), I recommend checking out one of the modules -- it isn't hard to work with dates, but it isn't hard to work with dates incorrectly either :-)

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