Find the last Sunday of each month
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
Write a program or a script that returns the last Sundays of each month of a given year. The year may be given through any simple input method in your language (command line, std in, etc.).
Example of an expected output:
./last_sundays 2013 2013-01-27 2013-02-24 2013-03-31 2013-04-28 2013-05-26 2013-06-30 2013-07-28 2013-08-25 2013-09-29 2013-10-27 2013-11-24 2013-12-29
REXX
<lang rexx>/*REXX program displays dates of last Sundays of each month for any year*/
parse arg yyyy
do j=1 for 12 say lastDOW('Sunday',j,yyyy) end /*j*/
exit /*stick a fork in it, we're done.*/
/*┌────────────────────────────────────────────────---─────────────────┐
│ lastDOW: procedure to return the date of the last day-of-week of │ │ any particular month of any particular year. │ │ │ │ The day-of-week must be specified (it can be in any case, │ │ (lower-/mixed-/upper-case) as an English name of the spelled day │ │ of the week, with a minimum length that causes no ambiguity. │ │ I.E.: W for Wednesday, Sa for Saturday, Su for Sunday ... │ │ │ │ The month can be specified as an integer 1 ──► 12 │ │ 1=January 2=February 3=March ... 12=December │ │ or the English name of the month, with a minimum length that │ │ causes no ambiguity. I.E.: Jun for June, D for December. │ │ If omitted [or an asterisk(*)], the current month is used. │ │ │ │ The year is specified as an integer or just the last two digits │ │ (two digit years are assumed to be in the current century, and │ │ there is no windowing for a two-digit year). │ │ If omitted [or an asterisk(*)], the current year is used. │ │ Years < 100 must be specified with (at least 2) leading zeroes.│ │ │ │ Method used: find the "day number" of the 1st of the next month, │ │ then subtract one (this gives the "day number" of the last day of │ │ the month, bypassing the leapday mess). The last day-of-week is │ │ then obtained straightforwardly, or via subtraction. │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────---──────────────┘*/
lastdow: procedure; arg dow .,mm .,yy . /*DOW = day of week*/ parse arg a.1,a.2,a.3 /*orig args, errmsg*/ if mm== | mm=='*' then mm=left(date('U'),2) /*use default month*/ if yy== | yy=='*' then yy=left(date('S'),4) /*use default year */ if length(yy)==2 then yy=left(date('S'),2)yy /*append century. */
/*Note mandatory leading blank in strings below.*/
$=" Monday TUesday Wednesday THursday Friday SAturday SUnday" !=" JAnuary February MARch APril MAY JUNe JULy AUgust September",
" October November December"
upper $ ! /*uppercase strings*/ if dow== then call .er "wasn't specified",1 if arg()>3 then call .er 'arguments specified',4
do j=1 for 3 /*any plural args ?*/ if words(arg(j))>1 then call .er 'is illegal:',j end
dw=pos(' 'dow,$) /*find day-of-week*/ if dw==0 then call .er 'is invalid:',1 if dw\==lastpos(' 'dow,$) then call .er 'is ambigious:',1
if datatype(mm,'month') then /*if MM is alpha...*/
do m=pos(' 'mm,!) /*maybe its good...*/ if m==0 then call .er 'is invalid:',1 if m\==lastpos(' 'mm,!) then call .er 'is ambigious:',2 mm=wordpos(word(substr(!,m),1),!)-1 /*now, use true Mon*/ end
if \datatype(mm,'W') then call .er "isn't an integer:",2 if \datatype(yy,'W') then call .er "isn't an integer:",3 if mm<1 | mm>12 then call .er "isn't in range 1──►12:",2 if yy=0 then call .er "can't be 0 (zero):",3 if yy<0 then call .er "can't be negative:",3 if yy>9999 then call .er "can't be > 9999:",3
tdow=wordpos(word(substr($,dw),1),$)-1 /*target DOW, 0──►6*/
/*day# of last dom.*/
_=date('B',right(yy+(mm=12),4)right(mm//12+1,2,0)"01",'S')-1 ?=_//7 /*calc. DOW, 0──►6*/ if ?\==tdow then _=_-?-7+tdow+7*(?>tdow) /*not DOW? Adjust.*/ return date('weekday',_,"B") date(,_,'B') /*return the answer*/
.er: arg ,_;say; say '***error!*** (in LASTDOW)';say /*tell error, and */
say word('day-of-week month year excess',arg(2)) arg(1) a._ say; exit 13 /*... then exit. */</lang>
output when using the default input (the current year, 2013):
Sunday 27 Jan 2013 Sunday 24 Feb 2013 Sunday 31 Mar 2013 Sunday 28 Apr 2013 Sunday 26 May 2013 Sunday 30 Jun 2013 Sunday 28 Jul 2013 Sunday 25 Aug 2013 Sunday 29 Sep 2013 Sunday 27 Oct 2013 Sunday 24 Nov 2013 Sunday 29 Dec 2013