Need some assistance:
A script that writes (will usually appends) 8 records
(rows/lines/whatever) to a flat file
problem:
If there are NO records with the date (date format: 03-Apr-08)
of the "incoming data" I want to write/append these records to the file
If there are existing records with the date (03-Apr-08) of the
"incoming data" I want to simply exit the script.
The script will run multiple times per day, everyday.
Sample input (8 records)
"use these values(1234,'03-Apr-08',1234.56);"
"use these values(1357,'03-Apr-08',1234);"
"use these values(2468,'03-Apr-08',333666);"
"use these values(4567,'03-Apr-08',3456);"
"use these values(2233,'03-Apr-08',3234.56);"
"use these values(3356,'03-Apr-08',2234);"
"use these values(5577,'03-Apr-08',633666);"
"use these values(5577,'03-Apr-08',2456);"
Using the date as the determining factor as to write/append or simply
exit the script because the data already exist from a prior run, how is
the best way to do this and how do I easily compare dates in Perl
Thanks
J.
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