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Re: Find maximum (Activity) date from array hash.

by CountZero (Bishop)
on Jun 02, 2020 at 20:08 UTC ( [id://11117608]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Find maximum (Activity) date from array hash.

A few things:

  • You will have to dereference $_ : $_->{'Activity Date'}
  • = isn't a comparison operator, it is the assignment operator. Use == instead for numerical tests. But you really need eq to check if both dates are the same.
  • Finally, to see if one date is before or after another, you cannot use > or <. At least not if you use this date-format. The ISO date format (YYYY-MM-DD) can do that more easy. So either transform your date format into the ISO format of use one of the many Date or DateTime modules on CPAN.

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Re^2: Find maximum (Activity) date from array hash.
by Sami_R (Sexton) on Jun 02, 2020 at 23:41 UTC

    Thank you CountZero

    Based on your notes, have used hippo's code with ISO date format (YYYY-MM-DD) and compared the date like

    $maxdate = $date if $date gt $maxdate;

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