Respected Monks,

I want to be able to subtract and add the dates in my program,

example:- find a day 35 days before today. I could do that in a lengthy way, but I was wondering if there is a module that could make the coding easier and shorter.

I checked out with the Date::Calc module and found that it didn't have any function that could let me do that directly. The reason I need to add/subtract the days is I have the data files in the format $data_file="$DataDir/$month_names{$month}\_$day\_$year\.dat"; and I build html file today.html using the $data_file. I use localtime function to generate $month,$day and $year. If i don't find todays $data_file I have to use yesterday's data file or else day before yesterday data file to build today.html.

I appreciate your input.

Thank you,
nagesh

Edited 2001-12-13 by dvergin per author request

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