Re: Re: Date Range Parsing

Thanks for the reply. The only problem with that is that a file contaning data for 20010201 is actually created sometime the following day. Or, am I not understanding something?

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Re: Re: Re: Date Range Parsing by chipmunk (Parson) on Feb 15, 2001 at 21:37 UTC
Perhaps I am not understanding something. You wrote "I want to 'do something' to files created within a certain range of dates, inclusively." Is that not what you meant? Either way, you can still use Time::Local and compare your dates in epoch time. Another option is storing your dates in YYYYMMDD format (as you're already doing); then you can just compare them numerically. `if ($begin_date <= $curr_date and $curr_date <= $end_date) { print "$curr_date is between $begin_date and $end_date.\n"; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re: Re: Date Range Parsing
by chipmunk (Parson) on Feb 15, 2001 at 21:37 UTC

I want to 'do something' to files created within a certain range of dates, inclusively.

Either way, you can still use Time::Local and compare your dates in epoch time.

Another option is storing your dates in YYYYMMDD format (as you're already doing); then you can just compare them numerically.

if ($begin_date <= $curr_date and $curr_date <= $end_date) {
  print "$curr_date is between $begin_date and $end_date.\n";
}
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