06-03-2008
You should be aware, though, that Perl's <= and >= operators simply do numeric comparison. In other words, your script will not work without modification e.g. across a month boundary. The solution is to parse the date strings, and use the resulting raw numbers for comparison.
Oops, you noticed already. Anyway, Google for date parsing in Perl. Also perhaps read the time and date handling threads in the FAQs for these forums.
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