Hi monks... been using perl for a while now but this one has got me stumped. I have multiple lines in a .csv they all have start stop dates and total time on each line. I need to look for dates (across multiple lines) that are consecutive. accounting for weekend and holidays. 

IE. input.csv

employid, start, stop, total
1234, 01/04/2013, 05/04/2013, 5
1234, 08/04/2013, 12/04/2013, 5
1234, 18/04/2013, 18/04/2013, 1
5678, 01/01/2013, 01/01/2013, 1

  output.csv

employid, start, stop, total
1234, 01/04/2013, 12/04/2013, 10
1234, 18/04/2013, 18/04/2013, 1

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I have the open/close and csv reading fine with CSV::Text. I am pretty confident on the looping etc.. I'm just not sure the best way to look through file for a matching employid and then take into account weekends and holidays. Suggestions on modules and how to proceed?

Was seeing a lot of talk about Date::Calc..

Thanks ray

In reply to Date::Calc and comparing across arrays? by rcotten

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