Not strictly perl, but to be used in a perl application:
I need to get a list of dates between a starting and ending date that match a specific condition (e.g., all Wednesdays between two dates). If I had a table that contained a list of consecutive days (e.g., '2005-08-01','2005-08-02','2005-08-03', and so on) I could do the following: 
SELECT MyDate FROM dates_table WHERE MyDate > start_date AND MyDate < 
+end_date AND DAYOFWEEK(MyDate)=4;

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However, I would rather be able to do this without creating the table of consecutive dates. It would work fine, but it seems slightly inelegant.

Ideas?

In reply to MySQL query question... by Anonymous Monk

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