Is there any way to compare two dates in Perl ???

[jaigs_27]

Is there any way to compare two dates in Perl ???

[wje_lf]

Is there any way to compare two dates in Perl ?

Probably. How do you first come across these dates? As attributes of files? As strings? If as strings, what do the strings look like?

[jaigs_27]

As a string see following, i know below one can not work but just for example what I am looking for:-

my $curr_date =`date +\%Y-\%m-\%d`;

chomp($curr_date);

if ($curr_date >= '2008-03-04') {
print "date is greater than/equal to current date";
} else { print "date is less than or check the date" ;}

[wje_lf]

if ($curr_date ge '2008-03-04')

You wouldn't be explicitly comparing dates there, you'd be comparing strings, like two surnames in a phone book. But it works.