Not to be arguing, but what /would/ it be called then, when using the script in a multi-langual environment, or when you do not know what the locale will be at execution time?

I really like the simplicity of the approach. I always want to answer the stupid question "How do I print yesterday in perl?" with 'print "yesterday"', which is a perfect answer, but obviously not what the question was about. I've hit this locale problem way too often to not care, and if you'd use a regex match, the easy way out is to use { local $ENV{LC_TIME} = "en_US"; ... }.


Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

In reply to Re^4: Is there an easy way to get the start date of the current week? by Tux
in thread Is there an easy way to get the start date of the current week? by ramjamman

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