#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature qw{ say }; my @fields = 'a' .. 'z'; @fields[ 10, 14, 24, 26] = ('1/2/2016') x 4; $_ = sprintf '%04d-%02d-%02d', (split m:/:)[ 2, 0, 1 ] for @fields[ 10, 14, 24, 26 ]; say join ',', @fields;