in reply to convert month number to month name

Hi,

Hash is up to the rescue 

my %month_name;
@month_name{ 0 .. 11 } = qw(Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct N
+ov Dec);

my ( $day, $month, $year ) = (localtime)[ 3, 4, 5 ];
$year = $year + 1900;

print join " ", $day, $month_name{$month}, $year;

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30 Aug 2012

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Re^2: convert month number to month name
by dsheroh (Monsignor) on Aug 30, 2012 at 09:59 UTC
    I'm not seeing the point of using a hash here... Since the hash keys are a contiguous, zero-based range of integers, why not just use an array instead of making a hash behave like one? 
    my @month_name = qw(Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec);

my ( $day, $month, $year ) = (localtime)[ 3, 4, 5 ];
$year = $year + 1900;

print join " ", $day, $month_name[$month], $year;

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