#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use CGI qw/:standard/;
# first install module Date::Calc
use Date::Calc qw(Date_to_Days Add_Delta_Days check_date);

#@array=readpipe 'ls 'directory'/'subdirectory'.*html' ;
@array=readpipe 'ls ./tmp/*html' ;

# we will be sorting later
#sort @array;

@headings=('Title','Issue Date');
@rows=th(\@headings);
foreach $n (@array)
{
    open (HTMLFILE,$n);
    $issue_date="";
    while (<HTMLFILE>)
    {
        if (m/<TITLE>(.+)<\/TITLE>/i){$title=$1};
#        had to change / in the middle?
        if (m/<o:Description>(.+)<o:Description>/i)
        {$issue_date=$1};
    }
    close HTMLFILE;

    #push(@rows, td([$title,$issue_date])
    push(@temp_rows,[$title, $issue_date,
                    # in case your date looks like "DD.MM.YYYY"
                    Date_to_Days((split(/\./, $issue_date, 3))[2,1,0])
                     ]);
}
for my $i (sort {$a->[2] <=> $b->[2] } @temp_rows) {
    push(@rows, td([@{$i}[0,1]]));
}
print
table({width=>"100%",border=>"1",bordercolor=>"#d9dae6",cellspacing=>"1",cellpadding=>"1"},Tr({bgcolor=>"#97a5f0"},\@rows));