Hi rline,

My approach differs a bit from what other's have posted here, so I'll offer it. I like to avoid modules that others might have to download, because I know first hand that process doesn't always go smoothly. So here is an example that accomplishes two things - first allows your user to specify a date (which are fed to $mday,$mon,$year) and a number of days (fed to $daysFromNow) and using the built-in Time::Local module will return th date you desire. Second it avoids having to specify non-standard modules, or having to manually getting date manipulation right.

The idea is the same as what the other monks are telling you, I just "like my way better(tm)". I also find it much safer than trusting my dumb brain to handle manipulating dates by hand. 

#! /usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Time::Local;

my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year) = 
      (0,0,0,22,11,2001);
my $daysFromNow = 99;
$year-=1900; $mon-=1; $daysFromNow*=86400;
my $givenTime = 
     timelocal($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year);
$givenTime+=$daysFromNow;
($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year) = 
     localtime($givenTime);
$year+=1900;$mon+=1;
print "$year-$mon-$mday $hour:$min:$sec\n";

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Good luck!
{NULE}

P.S. Opera appears to add carriage returns by itself to these posts - so my apologies if this is mis-formatted.

In reply to Re: Add A Number of Days to Today's Date by {NULE}
in thread Add A Number of Days to Today's Date by rline

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