09-01-2011
assign date to a variable
hi,
i've just started learning a bit of shell scripting and i wanted to know how to assign the value of the day of the month (i think the command for that is date +%d) to a variable say 'd' so that i can display 'st', 'nd', 'rd' and 'th' depending upon the value of that variable.
i'd appreciate it if someone could explain how i could go about doing this...i'm a 16yr old newbie, so i don't know how far hints and pointers would go...but any help is welcome
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html::formhandler::field::date
HTML::FormHandler::Field::Date(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation HTML::FormHandler::Field::Date(3pm)
NAME
HTML::FormHandler::Field::Date - a date field with formats
VERSION
version 0.40013
SUMMARY
This field may be used with the jQuery Datepicker plugin.
You can specify the format for the date using jQuery formatDate strings or DateTime strftime formats. (Default format is format =>
'%Y-%m-%d'.)
d - "%e" - day of month (no leading zero)
dd - "%d" - day of month (two digit)
o - "%{day_of_year}" - day of the year (no leading zeros)
oo - "%j" - day of the year (three digit)
D - "%a" - day name short
DD - "%A" - day name long
m - "%{day_of_month" - month of year (no leading zero)
mm - "%m" - month of year (two digit) "%m"
M - "%b" - month name short
MM - "%B" - month name long
y - "%y" - year (two digit)
yy - "%Y" - year (four digit)
@ - "%s" - Unix timestamp (ms since 01/01/1970)
For example:
has_field 'start_date' => ( type => 'Date', format => "dd/mm/y" );
or
has_field 'start_date' => ( type => 'Date', format => "%d/%m/%y" );
You can also set 'date_end' and 'date_start' attributes for validation of the date range. Use iso_8601 formats for these dates ("yyyy-mm-
dd");
has_field 'start_date' => ( type => 'Date', date_start => "2009-12-25" );
Customize error messages 'date_early' and 'date_late':
has_field 'start_date' => ( type => 'Date,
messages => { date_early => 'Pick a later date',
date_late => 'Pick an earlier date', } );
If form has 'is_html5' flag active it will render <input type="date" ... /> instead of type="text"
AUTHOR
FormHandler Contributors - see HTML::FormHandler
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Gerda Shank.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
perl v5.14.2 2012-06-25 HTML::FormHandler::Field::Date(3pm)