sry guys and thnx for reponding ....I am very new to perl scripting and Here is my code

I can get $day, $time1,$time2,$time3,$time4 from command line arguements

$log="output.txt"

open(FILE,$log);

open(DATA,">>capdata.txt");

while(<FILE>)

{

if ($_ ge "$day $time1:time2" && "$day $time3:$time4")

{

print DATA;

}

}

I worte the script..but this is working for these kind of logs(log starting with timestamp

2006-04-06 09:22:00|Mike|USA

2006-04-06 09:23:99|Steve|Canada

2006-04-06 09:22:44|Bond|japan

In reply to Re^2: Hi Perlmonks, I have need to write a script to do the following by timvzid1
in thread Hi Perlmonks, I have need to write a script to do the following by timvzid1

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