I want to create an HTML calendar, whose dates will be links to dated files found in a particular directory. I figured that I could use HTML::CalendarMonthSimple to do this.

I'd like to run this script out of cron nightly to generate the calendars.

I'm sure that it's my lack of experience, but I can't quite see how to accomplish this. Should I be using a different module? Here's what I thought should work: 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use HTML::CalendarMonthSimple;
use strict;

use vars qw($cal $file $date $mm $dd $yyyy);
 
while (my $line = <DATA  >) {
chomp $line;
($file, $date) = split('\.', $line);

$mm = substr($date,4,2);
$dd = substr($date,6,2);
$yyyy = substr($date,0,4);

$cal = new HTML::CalendarMonthSimple('month'=>$mm,'year'=>$yyyy);
$cal->setdatehref($dd, "/home/trixee/cal.txt",);

}

print $cal->as_HTML();

__DATA__
file1.20020801
file2.20020802
file3.20020803

[download]

In the example above, $dd never gets interpolated(term.?), although $yyyy and $mm do. I figured that someone here could easily point me in the right direction.

TIA,

Trixee

In reply to HTML calendar w/dates = links by Anonymous Monk

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