use strict; use warnings; use DateTime::Format::Strptime; my $parser = DateTime::Format::Strptime->new( pattern => '%m/%d/%Y' ); while () { my $dt = $parser->parse_datetime( $_ ); print $dt->ymd(); } __DATA__ 3/1/2006 0:00:00 7/22/2007 0:00:00 12/1/2006 0:00:00 12/22/2007 0:00:00