Converting Month to Num

[Joe Crawford]

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On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Vasquez, Mike wrote:
> Is there a simplier way of converting a Month that has a txt value,
> i.e. $month = "April" and converting that to $month = 4 instead of
> writing a long if statement.
>
> I have a drop down menu that has the value of the month and I'm
> passing that to another cgi page via post and I want to convert
> $q->param('month') over to 4.

If you're using dropdowns, why not put the number in the value, and the
name as the text, avoiding the interim step. I realize it's an HTML
solution, but it might be simpler. :-\

<select name="myMonth">
  <option  value="1">January</option>
  <option  value="2">February</option>
  <option  value="3">March</option>
  <option  value="4">April</option>
  <option  value="5">May</option>
  <option  value="6">June</option>
  <option  value="7">July</option>
  <option  value="8">August</option>
  <option  value="9">September</option>
  <option value="10">October</option>
  <option value="11">November</option>
  <option value="12">December</option>
</select>

	- Joe

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