Thanks a lot Steve for your kind reply. When I ran that command I got below output.
PRE_REQUISTES Configuration Management Settings -- 5.0 I don't understand what exactly that is. Thanks a lot. Regards, Mustafa On 2/26/09, Steve Howard (PFE) <sthow...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > What I always do to check if something is installed is use the perdoc > function from the shell to see if the documentation is installed. So I would > just do this: > > > > perldoc Date::Calc > > > > If it returns the doc, then I know the package is installed. You could also > use PPM to check. > > > > If it is not installed, then I would do this: > > > > PPM search Date::Calc > > > > If that can find the package, then I would install it doing this: > > > > PPM install Date::Calc > > > > PPM also has a gui version now, but I still just use the command line > functions … just staying with what is familiar to me. > > > > Here is a quick and dirty example of using the Delta_Days and the Today > function to compare a date with today and get the integer difference: > > > > use Date::Calc qw(:all); > > > > # Set the list for December 10, 2008: > > > > my @dateParts = (2008, 12, 10); > > > > my $dayDiff = Delta_Days(@dateParts, Today()); > > > > print "Difference is $dayDiff days\n"; > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > Steve > > > > *From:* Perl Perl [mailto:perl.solut...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 25, 2009 5:52 PM > *To:* Steve Howard (PFE) > *Cc:* perl-win32-users@listserv.activestate.com > *Subject:* Re: Commaring Two dates or month > > > > Thanks a lot Steve, > > I tried using y to use Date::Calc package in my program. > I am quite new to this programing, so I need one more help. > Could you please tell me how to know Date::Calc is installed at my PC or > not. > While trying to use that package, I found message something like " didn't > found @IN " like that. > When I did some search I got that path should be searched or path should be > given where the packages are install. > Assume my packages are installed at hypothetical path /usr/perl 5.8.2/Net > > How can I include that into my script. > > Please excuse me if this is a silly question. But I need help, as I am > quite new. > > I got below information that I have to export the PATH > > export PATH=$PATH:/usr/perl5.8.2/Net > > or > > PATH=$PATH:/usr/perl5.8.2/Net > export PATH > > Thanks a lot. > > Regards, > Mujju > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Steve Howard (PFE) < > sthow...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > Just a suggestion > > > > Why not use the Date::Calc package and use the Delta_Days function? I used > to use that all the time for things like what I understand you to want to > do. There are a lot of great date functions built into that package that > save a lot of time in development. > > > > Steve > > > > *From:* perl-win32-users-boun...@listserv.activestate.com [mailto: > perl-win32-users-boun...@listserv.activestate.com] *On Behalf Of *Perl > Perl > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:08 AM > *To:* perl-win32-users@listserv.activestate.com > *Subject:* Commaring Two dates or month > > > > Dear All, > > > > I have to compare two dates. And populate the result based on > that. > > First date I have received from previous script, which in this form > 5-Feb-09. > > And I have to compare this date with current date, locatime() . With the > localtime() I will get the current Day (24),Month (2) & year (2009 ) > > > > I will split the old date as below and get the result as below. > > > > $Old_Day = 5; > > $Old_Month = Feb. > > > > And then I convert Feb to 2 ( Month number ) by using scalar veriable. ( > The thing repeated for all months ). > > > > if( $Old_Month eq Feb) > > { > > $Old_Month = "2"; > > } > > elsif($Old_Month eq Mar ) > > { > > $Old_Month = "3"; > > } > > ..... > > elsif($Old_Month eq Dec ) > > { > > $Old_Month = "13"; > > } > > > > And in current month, which I got from localtime function as, > > > > $Current_Month , which will be 2 ( not sure this is a string or a numric > ). > > > > so while substracting or comparing as below, > > > > if (($current_Month - $Old_Month > 10) ) > > { > > print " Some operation "; > > } > > > > Here if I compare with current month with the old_month (Feb) then the > result is fine. > > but if the old_month is something like Jan or Jun something, then I am not > getting the properl result. > > > > Please let me know how can I compare and Substract two months or two dates > in above scenario. > > > > Thanks a lot for your kind help. > > > > Regards, > > Mujju > > > > >
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