The kind of processing you desired is easily accomplisches with the following perl program:
#!/usr/bin/perl while (<STDIN>) { if (/TO_DATE/) { s/TO_DATE/STR_TO_DATE/; s/(..)\/(..)\/(....)/$1-$2-$3/; s/MM\/dd\/YYYY/%m-%d-%Y/; } print $_; } [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat Landon.odat insert into log_book values (TO_DATE('08/12/1973','MM/dd/YYYY'),'C150','N5787G',1,1.8); [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./Landon.pl <Landon.odat insert into log_book values (STR_TO_DATE('08-12-1973','%m-%d-%Y'),'C150','N5787G',1,1.8); Brad Eacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]