On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Lauri Nikkinen <lauri.nikki...@iki.fi>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wrote a script which copies files in directory to an another
> directory based on user input. Any suggestions to simplify or shorten
> this? I'm using Win XP.
>

instead of accepting inputs from user, how about using command line
arguements so that you execute script as:
$ your_script.pl  --source_dir /foo  --dest_dir /doo  --days 7

CPAN module Getopt::Long would be helpful in this case -
http://search.cpan.org/~jv/Getopt-Long-2.37/lib/Getopt/Long.pm

cheers
yogesh

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