Lately I have been using a particular set of code over and over again, and I finally decided to put it into a module. I would like everyone's overall opinion of this code, and whether or not they think it might even be worthy of CPAN.

package Date::Lastday;
$VERSION=0.01;
use strict;

## GLOBALS ##
my %Max_Days=("Jan"=>"31","Feb"=>"28","Mar"=>"31","Apr"=>"30",
              "May"=>"31","Jun"=>"30","Jul"=>"31","Aug"=>"31",
              "Sep"=>"30","Oct"=>"31","Nov"=>"30","Dec"=>"31");

my %Months=("01"=>"Jan","02"=>"Feb","03"=>"Mar","04"=>"Apr",
            "05"=>"May","06"=>"Jun","07"=>"Jul","08"=>"Aug",
            "09"=>"Sep","10"=>"Oct","11"=>"Nov","12"=>"Dec");

## Functions ##

sub new{
  my $self=shift;
  return bless {} $self;
}

sub last{
  my $self=shift;
  my ($Day,$Month,$Year)=(localtime)[3,4,5];
  $Month=sprintf("%02d,($Month+1));
  $Year=sprintf("%04d,($Year+1900));
  ## Provide for leap years ##
  my $Leap=$Year % 4;
  if($Leap==0){
    $Max_Days{"Feb"}=29;
  }

  if($Day==1 and $Month==1){ # Cover January 1st
    $Month=12;
    $Day=31;
    $Year=$Year-1;
  }elsif($Day==1){ # Cover the 1st of any month
    $Month-=1;
    $Month=sprintf("%02d",$Month);
    $Day=$Max_Days{$Months{$Month}};
  }else{
    $Day-=1;
    $Day=sprintf("%02d",$Day);
  }
  return $Month,$Day,$Year;
}

sub cal{
  my $self=shift;
  my ($Day,$Month,$Year)=(localtime)[3,4,5];
  $Month=sprintf("%02d,($Month+1));
  $Year=sprintf("%04d,($Year+1900));
  ## Provide for leap years ##
  my $Leap=$Year % 4;
  if($Leap==0){
    $Max_Days{"Feb"}=29;
  }

  if($Day==1 and $Month==1){ # Cover January 1st
    $Month="Dec";
    $Day=31;
    $Year=$Year-1;
  }elsif($Day==1){ # Cover the 1st of any month
    $Month-=1;
    $Month=sprintf("%02d",$Month);
    $Month=$Months{$Month};
    $Day=$Max_Days{$Months};
  }else{
    $Day-=1;
    $Day=sprintf("%02d",$Day);
    $Month=$Months{$Month};
  }
  return $Month,$Day,$Year;
}
1;
__END__;

=pod

=head1 NAME

Date::Lastday - Perl extension to calculate previous day's date

=head1 SYNOPSIS

use Date::Lastday;

my $Last=new Date::Lastday;

my ($Month,$Day,$Year)=$Last->last();

  ## OR ##

my ($Month,$Day,$Year)=$Last->cal();

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Date::Lastday is used to calculate the date of the previous day. It us
+es the localtime function of Perl to get the date, then manipulate it
+ from there.

The last function returns the month and day as 2 digit numbers, and th
+e year as a 4 digit number. If you wish to have the month returned as
+ the 3 letter abbreviation (i.e. Jan, Feb, Mar, etc.), use the cal fu
+nction.

=head2 EXPORT

None by default

=head1 AUTHOR

Thomas Stanley

Thomas_J_Stanley@msn.com

=head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001 Thomas Stanley. All rights reserved. This program i
+s free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the s
+ame terms as Perl itself.

=head1 SEE ALSO

perl(1)

=cut

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TStanley
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