February 2006
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
6h 16m
English
The commercial calendar programs out there, such as Microsoft Outlook, do a good job of reminding you of your wife's birthday, on her birthday, when it's much too late to get her a present. What's really needed is a program that reminds you when an important date is approaching.
It would also be nice if the program could also tell you how many days have elapsed since an important event, such as, for example, how many days since you sent out a rebate form.
1 # 2 # Usage: remind.pl [<calendar-file>] 3 # 4 # File format: 5 # date<tab>delta<tab>Event 6 # 7 # Date -- a date 8 # delta -- 9 # -xxx -- Remind after the event for xxx days 10 # +xxx -- Remind before the event for xxx days 11 use strict; 12 use warnings; 13 use ...