in reply to Calculating next business day (weekends/holidays taken into account)

You need to increment the day by one and check if it's not a holiday/weekend day. But incrementing days gets hairy, so use one of the great date modules from cpan to do it. I use Date::Calc or for an OO module DateTime.

In fact converting you entire script to use DateTime for dates would be a good thing. It'll end up being far more maintainable in the long run, and looking at what you have so far not to much of a change.

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Re^2: Calculating next business day (weekends/holidays taken into account)
by vxp (Pilgrim) on Jun 24, 2009 at 20:25 UTC

    Unfortunately, I am not allowed to install anything on the box the script will be running from. That includes CPAN modules :/

    This is why I'm jumping through hoops there, with my get_day() sub :)

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      Obligatory link: Yes, even you can use CPAN

      Alexander

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      Can you install it for your user account that will run the script? Then you can alter the 'lib' search path.

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        nope..

        after some discussion in the chatterbox it was determined that the only way to use modules (and still comply with the security policies on that box) is to just copy/paste them into my script. it sucks, but its the only way. :/

        so, keeping that in mind - any ideas for my sub get_next_business_day { } ? :)

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