Subj : txt2pkt.pl To : Maurice Kinal From : Jame Clay Date : Wed Feb 09 2005 03:25 pm Hi Maurice! > The biggest change I made so far was to add "use POSIX qw/strftime/;" for any > date calls since formatting the DateTime becomes; > my($DateTime) = strftime "%d %b %y %H:%M:%S", localtime; You used that as a replacement for the call to the subroutine? > which produces the exact needed result without any further processing or > formatting. That cleans things up nicely I thought.I suggest you try it > and see for yourself. I'll do that, & post about it here when I can... Jame --- BBBS/LiI v4.01 Flag-5 * Origin: https://bbs.rocasa.org/bbbs (1:120/545) .