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Thanks, that did the trick.
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Re^3: Can I extract a Hash element by passing a variable to the hash?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 27, 2006 at 21:39 UTC

    As I meant to mention that in my original post, you could just use localtime. 

    my $slot = (localtime)[6];  # 0..6 for Sun..Sat

if ($slot == 6) {
   $slot = undef;     # undef for Sat.
elsif ($slot == 5) {
   $slot = 6;         # 6 for Fri.
}

print "Slot Number is $slot\n";

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