RE: Perl dates

2002-04-03 Thread Timothy Johnson
Check out the Time::Local module. -Original Message- From: Ho, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 8:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Perl dates Hi guys, I was wondering if you could help me. I have a variable in my perl code called $deadline_date. I

Perl dates

2002-04-03 Thread Ho, Tony
Hi guys, I was wondering if you could help me. I have a variable in my perl code called $deadline_date. I assign $deadline_date the value 20011212. The date format is MMDD. I have a file which contains 2 columns of values i.e. date and product as follows: 20011001 abc 20010701 bcd 20011101