NAME

Date::LibICal - Perl wrapper for libical

SYNOPSIS

  use Date::LibICal;

  my @all_timeslots_in_epoch = Date::LibICal::expand_recurrence(
      'FREQ=MONTHLY;UNTIL=20130131T000000Z;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=MO',
  );

alternatively with a fixed start Date

  use Date::LibICal;
  use Date::Time;

  my @timeslots_in_epoch = Date::LibICal::expand_recurrence(
      'FREQ=MONTHLY;UNTIL=20130131T000000Z;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=MO',
      DateTime->new( year => 2012, month => 1, day => 1)->epoch,
  );

or with a fixed start Date and a max count of results:

  use Date::LibICal;
  use Date::Time;

  my @timeslots_in_epoch = Date::LibICal::expand_recurrence(
      'FREQ=MONTHLY;UNTIL=20130131T000000Z;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=MO',
      DateTime->new( year => 2012, month => 1, day => 1)->epoch,
      10,
  );

To convert any of the results into something useful you can

  use DateTime;

  print
      join "\n",
      map {
          DateTime->from_epoch( epoch => $_ );
      } @timeslots_in_epoch;

DESCRIPTION

Date::LibICal is a non-complete interface for libical. Currently it is only useful to convert implicit icals into a list of explicit timeslots.

EXPORT

None by default.

Exportable methods are: expand_recurrence.

DEPENDENCIES

This module only works under Perl 5.12 or later.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-date-libical@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at "/rt.cpan.org"/"http://rt.cpan.org/"" in "http:.

SEE ALSO

This package helps in doing implicit to explicit conversion like Date::ICal provides in a fast way, but with less features.

AUTHOR

Andreas 'ac0v' Specht <ac0v@sys-network.de> Lukas Mai, <l.mai at web.de>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2013, Andreas 'ac0v' Specht <ac0v@sys-network.de>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See "perlartistic" in perlartistic.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

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cpanm Date::LibICal

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Date::LibICal