locatime()

[Sam]

hello
I have a date array, I need to identify those dates which are Saturdays and
Sundays. I think part of my problem is that I don't know how to search the
documentations that came with perl5.6 in my Linux box. so I you could give
some direction on how to do that tasks I am grateful

thanks

[James E Keenan]

"Sam" <samj@austarmetro.com.au> wrote in message
news:3f678512$1@news.comindico.com.au...

> hello
> I have a date array, I need to identify those dates which are Saturdays

and

> Sundays.

Install the Date::Calc module from CPAN and use something like the
Day_of_Week() function.

I think part of my problem is that I don't know how to search the

> documentations that came with perl5.6 in my Linux box. so I you could give
> some direction on how to do that tasks I am grateful
>

perldoc -q date
# but since Date::Calc is not standard, this won't answer your specific
question. Nonetheless, this is the general approach for querying the docs.

[Tom]

"Sam" <samj@austarmetro.com.au> wrote in message news:<3f678512$1@news.comindico.com.au>...

> hello
> I have a date array, I need to identify those dates which are Saturdays and
> Sundays. I think part of my problem is that I don't know how to search the
> documentations that came with perl5.6 in my Linux box. so I you could give
> some direction on how to do that tasks I am grateful
>
> thanks

Reference book such as Programming Perl is a good alternate source of
getting the type of information that you're looking for. For instance,
if you look up localtime() you would see an example of getting the day
of the week from the function like this:

$thisday = (Sun,Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat)[(localtime)[6]];

Although books are not cheap, but they may include information that
might be valuable and they are portable and require no AC or battery
to operate.

Tom
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[David H. Adler]

In article <59b4279a.0309170319.d188a7e@posting.google.com> , Tom wrote:

>
> Reference book such as Programming Perl is a good alternate source of
> getting the type of information that you're looking for.

As long as you keep in mind that it's an *alternate* source. The books
are not the definitive documentation, and are often out of date. I
think the last edition of PP covers 5.6.0 (certainly no later than
5.6.1).

dha

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