RE: Seeking Date routine to calculate number of whole Months for two dates

2001-12-02 Thread Wagner-David
I apologize to the list for not being clear. When you view a problem from a certain perspective, you give what you think is clear and in this case it was not. What I wanted was given date: 12/1/01 and new date, say: 1/2/02, would give 1. If it had been 12/31/01, then zero. Like

Re: Seeking Date routine to calculate number of whole Months fortwo dates

2001-12-02 Thread Carl Jolley
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Sisyphus wrote: > Seems to me that you would then first have to define what you mean by a > 'whole month'. > > Consider the period 2000-01-07 (7th Jan.) to 2000-02-27 (27th Feb). Do you > want that reported as zero whole months (because no full calendar month lies > in that pe

Re: Seeking Date routine to calculate number of whole Months fortwo dates

2001-12-02 Thread Carl Jolley
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Sisyphus wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Wagner-David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Perl Win32'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 7:08 AM > Subject: Seeking Date routine to calculate number of whole Months for two > dates > > > > I have loo

Re: Regular expression help

2001-12-02 Thread Carl Jolley
On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, linkagent wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "$Bill Luebkert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "linkagent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > linkagent wrote: > > > I need members help on this; > > > Q1)As far as I know, \d* means match either 0 or more digits, since > > > /(\d*)