Hi,

I'm comparing an array of email addresses with another array of emails with appended dates. I want to remove the dates, reformat them, sort them most recent first.

The script worked but ended before it worked through the entire array. I thought it timed out for some reason and fed the script a shorter array.Again it worked before completing the array. Again I shortened it and then it failed to work at all displaying the error: Error parsing time at /usr/lib64/perl5/Time/Piece.pm line 469.


#!/usr/bin/perl -wt
use strict;
use CGI ':standard';
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use Time::Piece;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

my (@buyers,@csv,@dif,@end,@sort,@time,@zed,$demo,$first,$second);


open (CSV,"<../../public_html/emails.txt");
            @csv=<CSV>;
            close (CSV);
              
open (BUYERS,"<../../public_html/buyers.txt");
            @buyers=<BUYERS>;
            close (BUYERS);
                      
foreach $first(@csv) {
                             chomp($first);   
                             push(@zed,$first);
                             
foreach $_(@buyers)  {

if($_=~/$first/)      {          
                        $_=~/\d+\/\d+\/\d+/;
                     my $date=Time::Piece->strptime($&, '%m/%d/%Y');
                     my $newdate=$date->strftime('%Y%m%d'); 
                        push(@time, $newdate);
                      }
                     }
                             @time = sort {$b <=> $a} @time;

foreach (@time)      {
                       push(@zed,$_ );
                       }

                           undef(@time);

                      }

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I can't determine what is generating the error. Thanks in advance.

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