in reply to Help with an array Conversion

Why not use an array?

my @DAYS_OF_WEEK = qw( Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday ); my $dayname = $DAYS_OF_WEEK[$day];

That said, POSIX's strftime is indeed even better.

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Re^2: Help with an array Conversion
by barrycarlyon (Beadle) on Apr 26, 2006 at 22:10 UTC

    Solved Please Ignore (i looked at cpan docs, lol)

    Given posix strftime is there a similar way to obtain the month name?

    Barry Carlyon barry@barrycarlyon.co.uk
      >perl -e "use POSIX; print strftime '%b', localtime Apr >perl -e "use POSIX; print strftime '%B', localtime April