> I would like to know which is the best way
> I can do some basic arithmetic on dates...
> for instance... I'll be parsing a bunch of
> log lines, and need to "grep" some of them
> which date field be between a give stage of
> time,

Modules...

http://perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/lib/Date/Calc.html
http://perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/lib/Date/Manip.html
http://search.cpan.org/Catalog/Data_and_Data_Type/Date/

the tough part is choosing the best one :)

> for instance between feb 28, 200 and
> jan 30, 2002...

You must be a historian of some sort, nobody
else is interested in such large 'stages' of
time ;-)

Jonathan Paton

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