Perl Tips Blog from Bay View Training

The Perl Tips that were previously mere Web pages are now being presented in the form of a blog (short for “web log”). What does this mean to you? Several things: (more…)

Since we’re starting a new year, let’s look at handling dates in Perl. Let’s say the user enters a date and you want to check if it’s between a particular range of start/end dates.

In particular, let’s say you want to go to Hawaii and your kids are in school for the spring semester from January 9 through June 2. Your travel agent gives you a list of possible dates when you can go to Hawaii really cheaply, and you want to know which ones conflict with your kids’ school schedule so you can include the budget for a babysitter in the cost of the trip.
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