I'm still a beginner in Perl programming. hence i need some advice in here to do a perl script. i have a input file as given below, and i need to use the current date search each column to get the number of occurrence from each columns. The date1 or date2 format first 8 numbers are "YYYYMMDD". i have write a basic code referring some perl code from internet and i only managed to come out with below :(. need some help or advice here.

input file

Student ID;date1;date2

13645722;20110327203202.0Z;20140211204731.0Z

14947374;20110327203202.0Z;20140220135320.0Z

15962660;20110327203156.0Z;20131106113716.0Z

17480884;20110327212821.0Z;20131211143804.0Z

13054554;20110327203141.0Z;20131205162959.0Z

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
 
my $file = $ARGV[0] or die "key in your csv file name\n";
 
my $count = 0;
open(my $data, '<', $file) or die "Could not open '$file' $!\n";
 
while (my $line = <$data>) {
  chomp $line;
 
  my @fields = split ";" , $line;
  my $rows = $fields[2];
  $count++;
  }
print "$count\n";

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Thank you in advanced.

In reply to search date occurance from csv column by anakin30

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