I'm trying to figure out what exactly a script I wrote (see the attachment) is doing by stepping through it in the debugger. I have an array of dates in %Y-%m-%d format for each of the last 7 days. So, for instance, the range of dates for today (June 17, 2007) is from the 10th to the 16th. I then take these dates and use them to find work tickets in our ticketing system which were last updated on the day currently being checked.
So, the first date would be 2007-06-16 (having pushed, rather than shifted, the array). I then grab the date of a ticket transaction, dropping the time from it so it is only the date (my $lstupdt = $ticket->LastUpdated) =~ s/\s.*$//; The ticket system uses datetime format so I have to remove the space following the date and everything after it. LastUpdated is a built in method for the ticket system which does pretty much what its name implies, gets the date of the last transaction on the ticket. In the debugger I've set the 'w' command to watch the variable containing the day being looked for ($day). I would have thought $day stays the same throught an iteration of the while loop but the debugger keeps stopping to tell me it switched from '2007-06-15' (for instance) to ''. I then continue and it tells me it switched back from '' to '2007-06-15'. Is it supposed to do that? Shouldn't the $day variable remain constant? I know this is convoluted and not having knowledge of the ticket system may make this difficult to help with, but anything you can offer will be appreciated Mathew -- Keep up with me and what I'm up to: http://theillien.blogspot.com
weekly_timesheet.pl
Description: Perl program
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