On 8/1/07, jeevs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Before reading the above comments I used the localtime function of > Time::Local to convert the dates into epochs and then comparing > numerically. > > But thanks as i was not knowing that the strings i.e 2007-12-01 and > 2007-12-02 can be compared using the string operators for dates. Can > anyone point me to how strings are compared. To be more ellaborate i > can understand if strings like 2007-12-01 is less than 2007-12-02 but > how can a string 2007-11-01 will be less than 2007-12-01 . >
Strings compare character by character, from left to right, so 2 = 2 0 = 0 7 = 7 - = - 1 = 1 1 < 2 HTH, -- jay -------------------------------------------------- This email and attachment(s): [ ] blogable; [ x ] ask first; [ ] private and confidential daggerquill [at] gmail [dot] com http://www.tuaw.com http://www.downloadsquad.com http://www.engatiki.org values of β will give rise to dom!
