Hi

So, you are running through the files on the server and you want to fetch only those whose names end with _Jul282009_2358.zip (for the current date).

One way to get the date in that format is using POSIX::strftime. Here is a quick test: 

use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX qw(strftime);

print strftime("arident16_%b%e%Y_2358.zip\n", gmtime);

output:
arident16_Jul292009_2358.zip

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One potential problem with strftime is that the output depends on your locale settings. In other words, the abbreviation Jul may come out differently (in a different language, for example). If so, you could continue constructing the timestamp manually, as you attempted at the top of your code. I will continue with strftime for now, because it makes the code smaller.

So to insert into your code:

### at the top of the file:
use POSIX qw(strftime);

### ...

### just before your foreach loop:

my $files_to_match = strftime("%b%e%Y_2358.zip", gmtime);

foreach $file (@list)
{
    # N.B. I am assuming $file contains the filename here. 

    # skip files that don't end with $files_to_match
    # N.B. could use regex here, not sure what's faster.
    next unless 
        substr($file, 0 - length($files_to_match)) 
        eq $files_to_match; 
    
    ### Then what you did already. I didn't check that.

}

### quit, etc...

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I have tested the above in a very basic way...

I didn't check the rest of your code because it seems like you are just asking how to skip files that don't match. I did notice that you are using a mixture of print and printf. In Perl, you generally use print most of the time and only need printf or sprintf when using the formatting strings (%0.2d, etc.). You should think about using warnings and strict (as in my strftime example script, above).

Hope this helps.

In reply to Re: date in required format by FalseVinylShrub
in thread date in required format by namishtiwari

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