Perl and Dates

Hi there

I am trying to use a date as a criteria in a sql statement

the database is an access data base and requires the date to be put between hashes
eg. #27/05/00#

however perl sees this as commenting out
I thought of writing it like this

eg. #27/05/00# but it doed not seem to work

does any body have any ideas

Thanks

You could do something like this:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">code:</font><HR><pre>
my $date = qq(#27/05/00#);
[/code]

Now the $date variable should be passed withouth the need to escape everything and will produce the desire value.



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