on Fri, 09 Aug 2002 12:35:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry Preston) wrote:
> Thanks about "^^^". I forget to say that I will not know what the > date is, anyone can change it. If you don't have other 6-digit substrings in your input string, you can use #! /usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $string = "%makesql(FORD,waf_end,010602 &nowdate,all,0,pdv.CHEVY;\n"; my $newdate = '080902'; $string =~ s/\d{6}/$newdate/; print $string; You may also want to check out perldoc perlretut -- felix -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]