get the week day of a date?

[robertchen117]

my date format is "030207", 03/02/2007, how could I get it is Friday?

Thanks, too tricky for me and beyond my mind.

 

[Mumia W.]

my date format is "030207", 03/02/2007, how could I get it is Friday?

Thanks, too tricky for me and beyond my mind.

You can use the strftime function from the POSIX module.

 

[Mumia W.]

You can use the strftime function from the POSIX module.

Here's a short example:

require POSIX;
import POSIX qw(strftime);

my $string = '030207';
my @date = $string =~ /../g;
$date[2] += 100;
$date[0] -= 1;

print strftime('%F (%A)',0,0,0,@date[1,0,2]), "\n";