Re: Compare Dates

amerar@xxxxxxx wrote:
Here is a good one: I need to compare 2 dates, without the year.
Basically I want to know if a specific calendar date falls between two
other dates. Everything is in YYYY-MO-DD, the way Perl wants it.

Just strip the year:

my $day = substr $date, 5;

and do stringwise comparisons.

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