First off you're very good at this - Second however take in the fact that I'm a beginner on PERL. Of course Input Parsing is easy for someone with a Phd and the Doctors title. I'm not being nasty I'm just saying it isn't easy for me. However I think I understand what you're doing. I don't understand the first reply though because the individual states $datemin and $datetime those have to be defined somewhere and I don't have a clue on how to do this....I was hired at a starting position and all I've ever programmed are shell scripts (Which I'm very good at) but the company I work for went to PERL (Can't blame em) So I'm learning PERL and it's quite different it has so many things you can do with it. Talking to it is different than shell. So bear with me please.

The Brass Monk

In reply to Re: Re: Mass file search prob by brassmon_k
in thread Mass file search prob by brassmon_k

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