On Wednesday, May 22, 2002, at 03:26 , Sven Bentlage wrote:
> ok, found out myself why it didn't work. > I am not sure if it's an elegant chunk of code, but it works. > Since the data is in the $_ variable, fooling around with $date_today in > the regex coulnd't work out. > (Omitted =~ since I use $_.) may I recommend what may be simpler? # never argue with what works. PERIOD. my @t=localtime;$t[4]++;$t[5]+=1900; # for the DD-MM-YYYY we would use my $dtg = sprintf("%02d-%02d-%4d",@t[3,4,5]); .... my @notFound; while(<FH>) { if (/$dtg/ ) { print $_; #or what ever you } else { push(@notFound, $_); } } close(FH); print "#----------\n# ok, so what did we put in the \@notFound\n\n"; print $_ for @notFound; ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]