I'm looking for a way to do some date math. I'm working on a payroll tracking system. I
want to provide a list of 2 week periods for the user to select. These periods start from
a hard-coded known start of pay period date. I want it to display the 6 most recent 2 week
periods. For e
Chris Charley wrote:
Hello Andrew
I've enclosed a text file that demonstrates Date::Simple.
HTH
Chris
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Chris Charley wrote:
Hello Andrew
I've enclosed a text file that demonstrates Date::Simple.
HTH
Chris
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Andrew Gaffney wrote:
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> My code ended up looking like:
use strict;
use warnings;
use constant PAY_PERIOD_DAYS => 14;
>
>
> my @payperiods;
Underscores are both permissible and advisable in variable names:
my @pay_periods;
>
> my @finalpayperiods;
> my $lastperiodend = Date::Simple->new('2004
R. Joseph Newton wrote:
Andrew Gaffney wrote:
My code ended up looking like:
use strict;
use warnings;
This code is running under mod_perl, so I think both of those are already being used.
use constant PAY_PERIOD_DAYS => 14;
Good idea. I never use constants. My code makes sense to me, but few oth
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> R. Joseph Newton wrote:
> > Andrew Gaffney wrote:
[snip]
> I didn't do it this way because there is a "first" pay period. If there
are only 2 pay
> periods from the starting date, you can't build a list of 6. My way t
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R. Joseph Newton wrote:
Andrew Gaffney wrote:
[snip]
I didn't do it this way because there is a "first" pay period. If there
are only 2 pay
periods from the starting date, you can't build a list
