Just a little request. I could edit your node to "fix" your formatting, but that strikes me as being very innapropriate, so I won't. However, I think you'll find that people may be more receptive if you simply slap <p></p> tags around your paragraphs. The random breaks you have hurt my eyes :) Compare:

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I want to be able to subtract and add the dates in my program, example:- find a day 35 days before today. I could do that in a lengthy way, but I was wondering if there is a module that could make the coding easier and shorter. I checked out with the Date::Calc module and found that it didn't have any function that could let me do that directly. The reason I need to add or subtract the days is I have the data files in the format

$data_file="$DataDir/$month_names{$month}\_$day\_$year\.dat";

and I build html file today.html using the $data_file. I use localtime function to generate $month,$day and $year If i don't find todays data_file I have to use yesterday's data file or else day before yesterday data file to build today.html.

Separating out code with <code></code> tags is also helpful.

Cheers,
Ovid

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