Hi All, I try to search the string which has the date format inside the file,
But i am not able to get the desired files. Pls help me on this.. C)/tmp/sms/perl$ cat a1 115-06-1979 10-11-81 20-NOV-2008 05-07-1981 welcome 15-10-2008 12-03-20009 (C)/tmp/sms/perl$ cat 1 #/usr/bin/perl open(DATA,"a1")||die"Unable to open the file"; while(<DATA>) { if($_=~/\d{2}-(\d{2}|\w{3})-\d{1,4}/) { print $_; } } close(DATA); exit 0; (C)/tmp/sms/perl$ Output should be : 10-11-81 20-NOV-2008 05-07-1981 15-10-2008