OTTOMH, assuming that your input is "X Y" where that is the range.. 
<INPUT>;
/^(\d*)\s*(\d*)/;  #split input
($first, $second) = ($1, $2);
$first =~ /(\d{4})(\d{2})?(\d{2})?/; # split the year, mo, and day
$fyear = $1;
$fmon = defined( $2 ) ? $2 : 1; #if not specified, use 1
$fday = defined( $3 ) ? $3 : 1; #ditto
$second =~ /(\d{4})(\d{2})?(\d{2})?/; # split the year, mo, and day
$syear = $1;
$smon = defined( $2 ) ? $2 : 1; #if not specified, use 1
$sday = defined( $3 ) ? $3 : 1; #ditto

# got input, now to 'expand'
my @list;
for ( my $y = $fyear; $y <= $syear; $y++ ) {
    for ( my $m = ( $y==$fyear ) ? $fmon; 1 ; 
             $m <= ( $y==$syear) ? $smon : 12; 
             $m++ ) {
        for( my $d = ( ( $y==$fyear) && ($m==$fmon) ) ? $fday : 1 ; 
                $d <= ( ( $y==$syear) && ($m==$smon) ) ? $sday : 31 ; 
                $d++) {
            push @list, sprintf("%04d%02d%02d", $y, $m, $d);
        }
    }
}

# And now @list holds an expanded list between the first
# date and second, including 'fake' days that probably can
# be ignored... maybe include here a test to remove the
# bogus entires:
my @goodlist;
foreach $i @list {
    if ( -x $i ) { push @goodlist, $i; }
}

# note that @list or @goodlist will be already sorted in
# date order...

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Edit: 2001-03-03 by neshura

In reply to Re: Expanding dates by Masem
in thread Expanding dates by jgordin

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