ParseRecur from Date::Manip

[Arndt, Tobias]

Hi NG,

trying to understand the ParseRecur function. Seems to be too complex
for me. My goal is to get the first Monday from each month of the year
2003. My code:

@date = ParseRecur("0:1*1:1:0:0:0","1/1/03","1/1/03","31/12/03");

print $date[3];

# that should print out the First Monday in April 2003

But I get 2003040700:00:00 !! That's the second Monday in this
month.... :-(
Maybe I didn't get the meaning of the three ($base etc..)variables
from the example;

# To find the 2nd tuesday of every month
# @date = ParseRecur("0:1*2:2:0:0:0",$base,$start,$stop);

Any help or hint would be greatly appreciated !

Thanks Tobias

 

[Kien Ha]

Hi NG,

trying to understand the ParseRecur function. Seems to be too complex
for me. My goal is to get the first Monday from each month of the year
2003. My code:

@date = ParseRecur("0:1*1:1:0:0:0","1/1/03","1/1/03","31/12/03");

you wouldn't get any output for @date because of ^^ ^^
@date = ParseRecur("0:1*1:1:0:0:0","1/1/03","1/1/03","12/31/03");

print $date[3];

# that should print out the First Monday in April 2003

But I get 2003040700:00:00 !! That's the second Monday in this
month.... :-(

No, that's 1st Monday of April, 2003.

print UnixDate( $date[3], "%a. %b %d, %Y\n");
=> Mon. Apr 07, 2003

Maybe I didn't get the meaning of the three ($base etc..)variables
from the example;

# To find the 2nd tuesday of every month
# @date = ParseRecur("0:1*2:2:0:0:0",$base,$start,$stop);

my $format = "%a. %b %d, %Y\n";
my ($base, $start, $stop ) = qw(1/1/03 1/1/03 12/31/03);
print map UnixDate($_, $format),
ParseRecur("0:1*2:2:0:0:0", $base, $start, $stop);

or verbally, you could do:

print map UnixDate($_, $format),
ParseRecur("2nd tuesday of every month in 2003");


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[Jacob Heider]

Hi NG,

trying to understand the ParseRecur function. Seems to be too complex
for me. My goal is to get the first Monday from each month of the year
2003. My code:

@date = ParseRecur("0:1*1:1:0:0:0","1/1/03","1/1/03","31/12/03");

print $date[3];

# that should print out the First Monday in April 2003

But I get 2003040700:00:00 !! That's the second Monday in this
month.... :-(

How can the 7th be the second Monday? Monday, April the 0th?

Jacob