Converting Month to Num

[Tom Adams]

How about a hash?

"Vasquez, Mike" wrote:

> ~sdpm~
> 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.
>
> Mike Vasquez
> Sr. Webcast Manager
> Akamai Technologies
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