Hello,

I'm not too good with Perl, so a problem like this stumbles me. I have a vision on how to do this but was wondering if there would be any other easier ways. I'm pretty sure there is, so I wish to seek wisdom from fellow monks here.

I have a directory called "images". Here is a example of what image files would be in this directory: 
2005-03-05.jpg
<b>2005-04-25.jpg
2005-04-27.jpg
2005-04-29.jpg
2005-05-01.jpg
2005-05-05.jpg</b>
2005-02-10.jpg

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Now I have a script that displays an image from this directory according to the current date and the date range that was inputted inside a database.

Lets say the date range was 2005-04-25 to 2005-05-05, and todays date was 2005-04-28, then that means I want it to display the image file named 2005-04-27.jpg. If todays date was 2005-04-29, then it will display the image file named 2005-04-29.jpg instead.

This image display is basically an automation display of a image file according to the current date and whether its in the date range specified.

The code I'm envisioning is a to create an array of values of image file names according to the date range specified. Then do a foreach statement on that array to check which image file to display.

Am I on the right track?

Thanks,
Elrold

In reply to Displaying a Image based on date range by Anonymous Monk

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