On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Pradeep Sethi wrote: > Thanks but I am looking of any regexp substitution. > > sorry for typo : I need to change 9/9/1973 to 09/09/1973 > >
--- $date="9/09/1973"; $date=~s{(\d+/)} {$1<10?"0$1":$1}ge; print $date,$/; --- Can't comment on effiency ??? also will do stange things to the year it it is incorrect: try $date="1/1/1"; :) Yours Tony. /* * "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the * same level of thinking we were at when we created them." * --Albert Einstein */