Your code will not work. You have to define datemin, datemax, timemin, timemax in the mylist portion also. Strict gives problems to. You have to put $datemin, $datemax, $timemin, $timemax into arrays.

@date = ($datemin, $datemax)
@time = ($timemin, $timemax)

You also need to tell shift how to separate both date and time by dashes. Finally if you do all that (I'm a novice) I will not get any errors but when I do a search on (Didn't figure out how to tell split what to do and I'm guessing that's why I get the following errors).

Use of uninitialized value in numeric ge (<=) at line blah
Use of uninitialized value in numeric le (>=) at line blah

I'm thinking either I'm not telling the script what to do with $4 or Since "split" is defined wrong for the search query the script can't initialize $3 or $4 for the search. So if you don't mind clarifying what you intended please do so.

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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