Re: Our Perl file

[Alfred Vahau]

Hi,
Is there a code I can use in perl to check to see if it is the current dates
data or at least the last 3 days dates, if it is older than 3 days then
delete the data in the file it creates?  

The following online references may be relevant for your project.
perldoc -f  stat
perldoc -f  -M
alfred,
Overstreet, Melody wrote:
We have a perl script file named buildgen.pl which will go out and look at a
day to see if it is Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday.  For instance it should have done Tuesday last night.  Once it
creates this file, it does not erase the file it waits till the next time it
is ran and overwrites the file.  So if another department does not do there
job to get us the correct data then it does not update the script with the
new data, it just leaves the old data which was last Week Tuesday data.
Is there a code I can use in perl to check to see if it is the current dates
data or at least the last 3 days dates, if it is older than 3 days then
delete the data in the file it creates?  

I hope I am making sense.
Because this file is picked up by the Internet department to put it up on
the internet and we are giving them bad data.
Melody A. Overstreet
Business System Analyst
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
361-886-4340
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 

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