"Firewalker" <ha***@rogers.com> writes:
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.
Welcome to comp.lang.perl
This newsgroup, despite it's level of activity, has been declared defunct in
Google
and in
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.4/pod...ost-questions-
You might want to familiarise yourself with the posting guidelines for
comp.lang.perl.misc at
http://mail.augustmail.com/~tadmc/cl...uidelines.text
before posting there.
I note from your headers that you are a Windows user or at least you used MS
Outlook to post here. If you were using a Linux install of Perl then I would
say use:
man perl
man perlfaq
perldoc perldoc
perldoc perl
but I don't have a clue what documentation you'd get with Perl on Windows. (I
have heard that ActiveState Perl has a help button somewhere on the Start
button menu but can't verify this at all.)
You might want to browse
http://www.perl.org,
http://www.perldoc.com/,
http://www.perl.com
and
http://www.cpan.org for modules (the nearest Perl has to Java classes)
Also put Perl into a google search then trawl through the webpages you find
there and the group archives for answers to any questions you might have that
might have been answered already.
If you want to download modules from CPAN then check your perl documentation
to see if 'perl -MCPAN -e shell' will work or look for something similar. It
will do the installation work for you.
HTH
Lesley