Hi Monks!

I need help or directions on how to get in Perl 5 days prior or whatever number of days from a date.
Let say if the date passed is 09/10/2007, give me all info between 09/10/2007 -5 days, no weekends. It should be between 09/10/2007 and 09/03/2007.

I have the values from the dates but now I need to find a formula on how to do this, here is the code with the date values using Perl.

my($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday) = localtime(ti
+me);
my $thishour = ('0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','10','11','12'
+,'1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','10','11','12') [(localtime) [2]
+];
my $thismonth = ('Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','Jun','Jul','Aug','Sep'
+,'Oct','Nov','Dec')[(localtime)[4]];

my $thisday = ('Sunday','Monday','Tuesday','Wednesday','Thursday','Fri
+day','Saturday')[(localtime)[6]];
my $day_number = ('1','2','3','4','5','6','7')[(localtime)[6]];

$mon++;
$year += 1900;

#I'm having problems figuring out how to find the date five days from 
+today's date.

print "Today is $thisday, $thismonth, $mday, $year";

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