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As I had said, it all depends on what you are trying to achieve. If you're on deadline for a temporary hack, and there is such a thing- then you should be aware of your enviroment. Perl was originally a collection of unix hacks and tools, wasn't it?

You don't code a distribution app that depends on unix tools. But on day to day problems in the office, maintaining a hosting server, whatever- It's shooting yourself in the foot if you imagine perl is the only tool in your box.

The original post was what would *i* do. I got tangled up and wrote a solution that does not address the question.

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Re^4: Determining the dayname for the last day of any given month
by davorg (Chancellor) on Jun 20, 2006 at 08:31 UTC

    That all makes perfect sense. Just two points to add:

    1. People come to this site a look for examples of code to copy or adapt. If you're writing code here that is just a quick hack (and there's no reason why you shouldn't do that) then please clearly mark it as such so that it doesn't get misused in the future.
    2. There are, of course, times when running external programs is a good idea (as long as you're aware of my caveats above). Date and time handling is never one of those times :-)
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