I want to set a time range for dates with yymmdd format. I want to be able to set a starting and ending date and run a for loop that will increase the date each time through the loop. Most of the information I have found is for 8 digit dates. How can I do this using only six? My code follows this rough outline 
$start_date = $start_year, $start_month, $start_day;
$end_date = $end_year, $end_month, $end_day;

For ($filename = $start_date, $name; $start_date <= $end_date; $start_date->add(days=>1))[
	open(FILE, ¡¥<$filename.txt¡¨);  # Files look like this ----> 080518_name.txt
        #do stuff w/file
	#continue until last file in date span
}
I'm having trouble formatting the dates to look just like this "080623" without spaces, symbols or date/time. How can I do this? How do I set the date to increase the day (and month and year as necessary)?

In reply to Using a range of dates in yymmdd format by ITmajor

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