John Baker wrote: > #-- This module is a must-have: > use Date::Manip;
Hi John, I'm not so sure about your suggestion. You might wish to re-read the section concerning whether usage is appropriate in the doc for this module. The author explicitly recommends that the module be used only in programs which make heavy use of dates in a wide variety of formats. He indicates that there are other modules with much less overhead for more modest date-related tasks. I'm not sure if it was you, but I got this same recommendation on my first post here some 3000+ messages back. I ended up just writing five or six functions for the boilerplate processing of locatime() output and putting them in a pm file. As an aside, my first work in C, about eight years ago, was an attempt to do something like Date Manip--called it calendar.h. I had it to where it could crunch formulations such as "The twenty-sixth day of March, in the year of our lord Nineteen hundred and niety-five". I blew it off, though, when I realized that, for all my effort, there was no way to know whether a numeric date was in American or world format. This is when I first came to passionately despise gratuitously numerical codings for values that had perfectly usable string descriptors. Joseph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
