How can I calculate the number of days between two dates in Perl?

Question

I want to calculate (using the default Perl installation only) the number of days between two dates. The format of both the dates are like so 04-MAY-09. (DD-MMM-YY)

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Answer 1

Date::Calc has Decode_Date_EU (and US etc)

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Date::Calc qw(Delta_Days Decode_Date_EU);

($year1,$month1,$day1) = Decode_Date_EU('02-MAY-09');
($year2,$month2,$day2) = Decode_Date_EU('04-MAY-09');

print "Diff = " . Delta_Days($year1,$month1,$day1, $year2,$month2,$day2);