I'm writing some code to handle multiple data communications scripts, and I'm trying to pull the server info, paths, and schedules into a config file so that comm process flows are easier to track.

I'd like to pull the schedule lines from our crontab file (which is overgrown and mainly contains lines unrelated to comm processes), and keep the same format.

I've seen a few cron-related modules on Cpan, but I'm interested in just parsing a schedule line and comparing it to the current date/time to see when the job should have last kicked off. I'd like to avoid installing a module to do this, but I can if I need to.

Anyone have any cron-parsing snippets laying around, module-dependent or otherwise?

In reply to Parsing a crontab line by delirium

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