Date::Calc::Iterator - Iterate over a range of dates
use Date::Calc::Iterator; # This puts all the dates from Dec 1, 2003 to Dec 10, 2003 in @dates1 # @dates1 will contain ([2003,12,1],[2003,12,2] ... [2003,12,10]) ; my $i1 = Date::Calc::Iterator->new(from => [2003,12,1], to => [2003,12,10]) ; my @dates1 ; push @dates1,$_ while $_ = $i1->next ; # Adding an integer step will iterate with the specified step # @dates2 will contain ([2003,12,1],[2003,12,3] ... ) ; my $i2 = Date::Calc::Iterator->new(from => [2003,12,1], to => [2003,12,10], step => 2) ; my @dates2 ; push @dates2,$_ while $_ = $i2->next ;
Date::Calc::Iterator objects are used to iterate over a range of dates, day by day or with a specified step. The method next() will return each time an array reference containing ($year,$month,$date) for the next date, or undef when finished.
This module is little and simple. It solves a little problem in a simple way. It doesn't attempt to be the smarter module on CPAN, nor the more complete one. If your problem is more complicated than this module can solve, you should go and check DateTime::Event::Recurrence, which solves a so broad range of problems that yours can't fall out of it.
Probabily this module won't evolve a lot. Expect bug fixes, minor improvements in the interface, and nothing more. If you need to solve bigger problems, you have two choices: vivifying a 2.x version of the module (after contacting me, of course) or using DateTime::Event::Recurrence and its brothers.
Anyway, I left the name Iterator, and not Iterator::Day or DayIterator, for example, so that the module can evolve if the need be. Who knows? Maybe one day I could need to make it iterate over weekdays, or over moon phases... let's leave the way open, time will tell.
Creates a new object. You must pass it the end points of a date interval as array references:
$i = Date::Calc::Iterator->new( from => [2003,12,1], to => [2003,12,10] )
from and to are, obviously, required.
from
to
Optionally, you can specify a custom step with the step key, for example:
step
$i = Date::Calc::Iterator->new( from => [2003,12,1], to => [2003,12,31], step => 7 ) ;
will iterate on December 2003, week by week, starting from December 1st.
Returns the next date; in list context it returns an array containing year, month and day in this order, or undef if iteration is over; in scalar context, it returns a reference to that array, or undef if iteration is over.
undef
Original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
-CAX -b 5.6.0 --use-new-tests --skip-exporter -O -v 0.01 Date::Calc::Iterator
The wonderful Date::Calc module, on top of which this module is made.
DateTime::Event::Recurrence and all the DateTime family from http://datetime.perl.org.
Marco Marongiu, <bronto@cpan.org>
Thanks to Steffen Beyer, for writing his Date::Calc and for allowing me to use his namespace.
Blame on me, for being so lazy (or spare-time-missing) that I didn't make this module compatible with the Date::Calc::Object interface.
Copyright 2003 by Marco Marongiu
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install Date::Calc::Iterator, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Date::Calc::Iterator
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Date::Calc::Iterator
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.