Hello Monks, I have created this program that parses a file and creates an output file; but I would like to rename the output file with the system date for example : 05272003.txt This will have to take place everyday. or al least from Monday thru Friday. The program will rename the ouput file with a date format. I'm new to the rename function so I will appreciate any ideas. Here is my code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;


my $infile  = 'c:/RX_Q.008';
my $outfile = 'c:/testfile.txt';
   
   
   open IN, "<$infile"  or die "Couldn't open $infile, $!";
   open OUT,">$outfile" or die "Couldn't open $outfile, $!";


my @finds = qw( 77403 77404 77406 77407 77408 77409 77411 77412 77413 
+77414 77416 77418 );

my $finds_re = join '|', map { quotemeta }@finds;

$finds_re = qr/$finds_re/;


while(<IN>) {
    next if m/$finds_re/;
    print OUT;
}
close IN;

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In reply to rename output file with system date by skyler

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