Sam Harris wrote:
> I am trying to extract last month's date from today's date as in
> "Jan" or "Feb"....is there a switch to enable that ?
Not a 'switch'. I'm not sure what you had in mind.
You can get the current local date/time by calling 'localtime'.
In array context, this function returns a list whose fifth
element is the current month. (See perldoc -f localtime
for the complete list). You can easily calculate the
previous month by subtracting 1, like this:
my ($thismonth, $lastmonth);
$thismonth = (localtime)[4];
(($lastmon = $mon) -= 1) %= 12;
Note that the month is zero-based, from zero for January
to eleven for December.
I have a suspicion, though, that you want a little more
than this. There are various date-orientated modules
which may be useful. I suggest you explain your problem
a little more then somebody will be able to help you.
Cheers,
Rob
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