> 1- Remove all the leading 000 from any field like acct# = 00037839842 > should be 37939842 and Post# should be 1980 s/^0+//;
> > 2- Want to format dates like birth = 02151956 should be 02/15/1956 my $date = "$1/$2/$3/" if (/(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d\d\d)/) HTH Paul Kraus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
