Hi,

I'm definitely a perl newbie, but eager to learn. I'm trying to use Time::Piece to print the the ISO8601 date on this day last month. Is this built in or will I have to use other functions to do this?

I have a bunch of DB_File hash files that have one of their values contains an ISO8601 date from some time in the past. I need to scan through all of the hash files and delete any record that contains a date older than 30 days.

The hashes were created by parsing the ISO8601 date as part of a filename such as myfile-b2291ce2b21d1cf6f6af68bd3e355505-20120112T115534.

I need to write a function that scans the hashes and delete any entries that have a date older than the day component of the filename above.

Thanks for any ideas,
Alex

In reply to Using Time::Piece and ISO8601 by gossamer

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