> That won't work if the dates are more than a year apart(i.e. >100302 will
Thanx Tim, I didnt think about that. Perhaps you will need to break up the string into 3 fields. Mark G ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Mark G'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 5:10 PM Subject: RE: Comparing Dates Conditional statements > > That won't work if the dates are more than a year apart(i.e. 100302 will > appear to be greater than 011503). I would recommend looking into the > Time::Local module. You can use it to convert the text dates into Perl > time() format. Then you can easily do a numeric conversion. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 2:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: perl > Subject: Re: Comparing Dates Conditional statements > > > > How can I have condition as such > > > > $date = 'XX/XX/XX'; <-insert any date > > If $date is greater then 01/01/02 then do ..... > > Else .... > > > > here is one simple way: > > <~~~cut > > $foo="01/01/02"; > $bar="01/03/02"; > > $foo =~ s/\///g; > $bar =~ s/\///g; > > > if( $foo > $bar ){ > > print "\$foo is greater then \$bar \n"; > > } > elsif( $foo == $bar){ > > print "\$foo is equal to \$bar \n"; > > } > else { > > print "\$bar is greater then \$foo \n"; > > } > > <~~paste > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 3:43 PM > Subject: Comparing Dates Conditional statements > > > > How can I have condition as such > > > > $date = 'XX/XX/XX'; <-insert any date > > If $date is greater then 01/01/02 then do ..... > > Else .... > > > > > > Paul > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
