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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Date Compare Post 72905 by vivekshankar on Wednesday 25th of May 2005 12:18:37 PM
Old 05-25-2005
thanx, i checked it and got one solution

a=`date "+%Y%m%d%H%M%S"`
echo $a
sleep 10
b=`date "+%Y%m%d%H%M%S"`
echo $b

if test $b -gt $a
then
echo "$b is greater than $a"
else
echo "$a is greater than $b"
fi



i have a doubt.....in my case have to get a start date and end date from the user in the format ddmmyyyy.....how can i validate if user has entered teh correct value...shud i do all validation manually or is there any other method available?

Thanks and Regards
vivek.s
 

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MakeMethods::Utility::Ref(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			    MakeMethods::Utility::Ref(3pm)

NAME
Class::MakeMethods::Utility::Ref - Deep copying and comparison SYNOPSIS
use Class::MakeMethods::Utility::Ref qw( ref_clone ref_compare ); $deep_copy = ref_clone( $original ); $positive_zero_or_negative = ref_compare( $item_a, $item_b ); DESCRIPTION
This module provides utility functions to copy and compare arbitrary references, including full traversal of nested data structures. REFERENCE The following functions are provided: ref_clone() Make a recursive copy of a reference. ref_compare() Attempt to recursively compare two references. If they are not the same, try to be consistent about returning a positive or negative number so that it can be used for sorting. The sort order is kinda arbitrary. SEE ALSO
See Class::MakeMethods for general information about this distribution. See Ref for the original version of the clone and compare functions used above. See Clone (v0.09 on CPAN as of 2000-09-21) for a clone method with an XS implementation. The Perl6 RFP #67 proposes including clone functionality in the core. See Data::Compare (v0.01 on CPAN as of 1999-04-24) for a Compare method which checks two references for similarity, but it does not provide positive/negative values for ordering purposes. perl v5.10.1 2004-09-06 MakeMethods::Utility::Ref(3pm)
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