I am having some trouble setting a command to execute in crontab.

I am doing a crontab -e "username" to edit the cron entries for the user I want. I know how to add in minutes, hours, month etc.

The problem I am having I guess is with the proper syntax of the command I want to execute.

I have a command that resides at: /global/web/web/web/generic/admin

The command I run manually from that directory daily is:
./batch.pl --backup -p '(^[A-Za-z0-9_])'

What would be the proper syntax to add that command to a cron job?

Why don't you create a script like this:

# mybackup.ss script
# whatever your shell is
#!/bin/ksh

export PATH=... # whatever your path is when you run from the command line
cd /global/web/web/web/generic/admin
./batch.pl --backup -p '(^[A-Za-z0-9_])'
# end script

here ya go man

* * * * * command to be executed
- - - - -
| | | | |
| | | | +----- day of week
( 0 - 6) (Sunday=0)
| | | +------- month (1 - 12)
| | +--------- day of month (1 - 31)
| +----------- hour (0 - 23)
+------------- min (0 - 59)