On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 09:05 , Ian Zapczynski wrote:
[..]
> What I'd *like* to do is stringify the output from both of these
> functions, as they both return objects. Is this possible? If I do
> something like:
>
> ($year,$month,$day) = Today();
> $yesterday = Add_Delta_Days($year,$month,$day, -1);
>
> $cal = Date::Calendar->new( $Profiles->{'US'} );
> ($prev_business_day,$rest) = $cal->add_delta_workdays($year,$month,$day,
> -1);
>
> I can print out the contents of $yesterday and $prev_business_day and
> seemingly get stringified output, but if I try to do something like:
>
> if ($yesterday ne $prev_business_day) {
> ....
> }
>
> I get "Date::Calc::_not_equal_date_time_(): can't compare a date and a
> delta vector at test.pl"
>
A strategy you may want to play is to
use the
Data::Dumper
and see if you can 'dig into' the "object" a bit...
to find what they really 'share' in common that
you can compare with.
Your basic 'strategy' seems reasonable - since
if you can get to the 'julian date' then you
can have your numerical compare...
eg:
[jeeves:~] drieux% cal -j
July 2002
S M Tu W Th F S
182 183 184 185 186 187
188 189 190 191 192 193 194
195 196 197 198 199 200 201
202 203 204 205 206 207 208
209 210 211 212
[jeeves:~] drieux%
for some strange reason - people talk about the 'string'
july 4th
rather than
185 + $leapyear
The problem of course is that this year for some
Julian Day 186 was a 'banking holiday' and/or 'half day'
for others it was just another 'Hawaiian T-shirt Friday'....
ciao
drieux
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