> I am trying to extract last month's date from today's date as in "Jan"
> or "Feb"....is there a switch to enable that ?

Assuming you actually meant "extract last month's name based on today's date":

@months = qw(Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec);
print $months[(localtime)[4]-1];

perldoc -f localtime 
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