Hi Monks!!
This is part of my code where I need to parse the file names, get the date that comes as part of the file names and sort the dates after that, how can I do that here, tried with no success, any help please!!!!


opendir(DIR, $dir) or die $!;
    my $c_array_1=-3;
    
    while (my $file = readdir(DIR)) {
       $c_array_1++;

        # Just files
        next unless (-f "$dir/$file");

        # Find files ending in .xml
        next unless ($file =~ m/\.xml$/); 
        
        # Change to the date format 123_20070227_REFNUM.xml
        $file=~/^(\d{3})_(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})_(.*?)/;
      
       $year_from= $2;
       $month_from= $3;
           $day_from = $4;
        
        $temp_date = month_from."/".$day_from."/".$year_from;
        
        sort $temp_date;
        
        # Sort date here and display::::
        
        print "<option value=\"$c_array_1-$file\">$temp_date</option>"
+;
               
    }

    closedir(DIR);

print "      </select>";

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Thanks again!!!

In reply to The Dates Sorting! by Anonymous Monk

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