The dates could be compared alphabetically. For example, '080801' is alphabetically less than '080812'. So, in the code below, the 'ge' and 'le' string comparison operators could be used to filter out the dates contained in the file name. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $path = "/some/path";
my $name = "name";
my $start = "$path/080801_$name";
my $end = "$path/080930_$name";

for my $file (grep {$_ ge $start && $_ le $end} glob "$path/??????_$na
+me") {
    open my $fh, "<", $file or die "unable to open $file";
    while (<$fh>) {
        # process...
    }
    close $fh or die "unable to close $file";
}

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Update: Changed glob "$path/????_$name to glob "$path/??????_$name to correctly let the wildcard operator, '?', match the 6 chars in the date portion of the file name.

In reply to Re^3: Using a range of dates in yymmdd format by Cristoforo
in thread Using a range of dates in yymmdd format by ITmajor

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