Dates with Perl

Hey guys,
I am newbie to perl. I am trying to deal with dates ( such trying to find
what the date would be after month). Is therea function or  date class( I am
a java programmer, I couldnt find the right word instead of class) to do the
job?
Thanks for any help.

"Firewalker" <hana1@rogers.com> wrote:

>  I am newbie to perl. I am trying to deal with dates ( such
> trying to find what the date would be after month). Is therea
> function or date class( I am a java programmer, I couldnt find
> the right word instead of class) to do the job?

There are lots of modules for this -- in fact there are too many.
As a place to start, look at Date::Manip:

perldoc Date::Manip

Peter

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On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:54:42 -0400, Firewalker wrote:

> Hey guys,
>  I am newbie to perl. I am trying to deal with dates ( such trying to find
> what the date would be after month). Is therea function or  date class( I 
am
> a java programmer, I couldnt find the right word instead of class) to do t
he
> job?

Use one or more of the the modules from the Perl DateTime project
(http://datetime.perl.org/).

Dave...

Perl has a module you can download to handle things like that.
"Firewalker" <hana1@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> Hey guys,
> I am newbie to perl. I am trying to deal with dates ( such trying to find
> what the date would be after month). Is therea function or  date class( I
> am a java programmer, I couldnt find the right word instead of class) to
> do the job?
> Thanks for any help.
>