>hello,
>is there something in perl through which i can get
>date previous to some specified days ,say 20 days befores date
>i need to know only dd-mm-yy and not time
>is there any module function for it
>thanks
>shweta
I have seen several people mention Date::Calc, I believe that is overkill
for your situation.
Take a look at the localtime function (perldoc -f localtime).
This will dump the date you specified into epoch time and then you can
subtract the specified days (converted into seconds) from that number.
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