Hi Monks!
I need to compare dates on every text file found in a directory, and if the file contents are older than one moth from today's date, I need to archive from that point, how could I compare this: 
our $localtime     = localtime;

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# This $localtime is going to give me: "Fri Jan 27 12:11:15 2006" as an example.
# I have to match against multiple lines in these text files, a directory could have multiple text files like that. error1.txt, error2.txt error-test.txt. And each line in each file starts like: 
[Dec 23 15:40:06 2005] derror.txt : Test application module :: Error::
+file_log ::: Bad file descriptor

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Now, if [Dec 23 15:40:06 2005] is one month older from today's date I have to delete that line from the file(s) and archive it.
I have got to a point where I can go through the directories and to the files, open all file contents, but now comes my problem, how to do what I explained before? Find in the files lines that are a month older, clear the lines with old stuff and archive it.
I have some code to show how far I could go.
Any help will be great!
## OPEN AND READ THE DIRECTORY
#=comment
opendir (DIR, "$dir");
my @FILES = grep(/.txt/,readdir(DIR));
closedir (DIR);
                                                                 
foreach my $FILES (@FILES) {
            
     open FILE, "$dir/$FILES" or warn "Can't open $FILES: $!<br>\n", n
+ext;

           while(<FILE>){
           my $check = $_;
                                                                      
+                if($check=~/(^\[)(\w+)(\s)(\w+)(\s)(\d+)(.*?)$/isg){
                                    
print "**** $2** $4**$6**$7**<br>";}
                                    
                                  }
     
     close FILE;      
    
   }
   
}

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Thanks a lot for the help!

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