You could always try storing the value in time() format. (E.g. print OUTFILE time."\n";) Then you can check to see if the file is over two days old like this:
my $time = time; if($time > $filetime + 172800){ unlink $file; } #172800 is the number of seconds in two days. -----Original Message----- From: Francesco Guglielmo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 6:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Date I need to do a Perl script who do a certain command after 2 days.Example: my file contains 8 Jul 2002 when I lunch the script it must control the date and if it's equal to date+2 (in this case 10 Jul 2002) execute my commands trought system.I thought to do this transforming the date in this format to days from the begin of the year but I don't know how.Thanks for your help, Francesco -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]