Converting Month to Num

[Todd Rockhold]

~sdpm~

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jeff Jungblut [SMTP:jeff at soapzone.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 22, 2001 10:36 AM
> To:	'san-diego-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org'
> Subject:	Re: Converting Month to Num
> 
> ~sdpm~
> on 3/21/01 4:45 PM, Vasquez, Mike at mike.vasquez at akamai.com 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.
> 
> Here's another solution that requires less code than building a hash.
> Take
> the first three letters of the month in $q->param('month'), find its
> position in a string of months, then divide the result by 3 and you'll
> have
> the month number.
> 
> $monthNum = index("???JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec",
> substr($q->param('month'), 0, 3)) / 3;
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Jungblut
> jeff at soapzone.com
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> 
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