Comparing dates

2006-06-25 Thread ebony smith
I am new to perl and need to compare some dates in a file stored in dd-mm- format to find out if the dates are greater than 30, 60 or 90 days. However, I am not quite sure how to go about doing that in perl and I was wondering if anyone out there had any tips on how to do this. I extract

Re: Comparing dates

2006-06-25 Thread Anthony Ettinger
Date::Calc On 6/25/06, ebony smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to perl and need to compare some dates in a file stored in dd-mm- format to find out if the dates are greater than 30, 60 or 90 days. However, I am not quite sure how to go about doing that in perl and I was wondering if

Re: Comparing dates

2006-06-25 Thread John W. Krahn
ebony smith wrote: I am new to perl and need to compare some dates in a file stored in dd-mm- format to find out if the dates are greater than 30, 60 or 90 days. However, I am not quite sure how to go about doing that in perl and I was wondering if anyone out there had any tips on how to

Comparing Dates Conditional statements

2003-05-27 Thread Paul Kraus
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]

Re: Comparing Dates Conditional statements

2003-05-27 Thread Mark G
; } 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

RE: Comparing Dates Conditional statements

2003-05-27 Thread Tim Johnson
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

Re: Comparing Dates Conditional statements

2003-05-27 Thread Mark G
: 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

RE: Comparing Dates Conditional statements

2003-05-27 Thread Dan Muey
While using a module or a database's built in time/date functions would be best you can do it as a straight numeric comparison. But you must be very careful as to how you order those numbers or you'll get Improper results. # mmdd $foo = 20030101; $bar = 20021231; # can even add hours minutes

trouble comparing dates from two different modules

2002-07-24 Thread Ian Zapczynski
Hello all, I am using add_delta_workdays() from Date::Calendar to determine whether yesterday was or was not a business day. In order to do this, I am trying to compare it with a date output from Add_Delta_Days from Date::Calc. What I'd *like* to do is stringify the output from both of these

comparing dates

2002-01-07 Thread Alex Harris
if I use the following to get the date of a file: use File::stat; use Time::localtime; $date_string = ctime(stat($file)-mtime); print file $file updated at $date_string\n; I get: Mon Jan 7 10:21:21 2002 Now I want to compare another file date to this one getting the date

Re: comparing dates

2002-01-07 Thread Matt C.
Check out Date::Manip; it can do just about anything you'd need to do with dates. If speed is of great concern (I use Date::Manip and it performs fine), you may be able to find another Date::* module more specifically tuned to your needs. Definitely try Date::Manip first though, as it will work

Re: comparing dates

2002-01-07 Thread John W. Krahn
Alex Harris wrote: if I use the following to get the date of a file: use File::stat; use Time::localtime; $date_string = ctime(stat($file)-mtime); print file $file updated at $date_string\n; I get: Mon Jan 7 10:21:21 2002 Now I want to compare another file date