Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] input to formatted date

2001-03-11 Thread John Murray
I'd give each day from 1/1/0001 a sequential number, and I'd test the modulus of that day number divided by 7 to get the day of the week: Given you have $yearnum $monthnum $daynum as input, you want a dayname out of the array @monthdays defined below. Here's my untested [away from perl at moment]

Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] input to formatted date

2001-03-11 Thread Scott R. Godin
on 03/11/2001 04:52 AM, allan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: by the way, the macperl.org list is soon to be defunct, having been replaced by the same list @perl.org. I forwarded my reply to you to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. -- Scott R. Godin| e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Laughing Drago

Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] input to formatted date

2001-03-11 Thread Scott R. Godin
on 03/11/2001 04:52 AM, allan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi > > i have three html dropdown boxes containg intergers which a user can > select as input for a desired date like: > > 11 03 01 > > i want to display the input above as: > > Sunday the 11th of march 2001 > > the one that causes

[MacPerl-AnyPerl] input to formatted date

2001-03-11 Thread allan
hi i have three html dropdown boxes containg intergers which a user can select as input for a desired date like: 11 03 01 i want to display the input above as: Sunday the 11th of march 2001 the one that causes the trouble is the weekday. so my question is how can i extract/calculate the corr