Hi Monks, I have been working perl from a good time and now I have come across one problem. I have to read a CSV file and get the data and for few conditions I have to read the 2nd column data which has the time and write it into a text file. The data format seems something like "21:09.3" when open with excel file to see the value and prints the same way in my output file. Now when I open it with wordpad it shows the same value as "18:21:09.32". I can directly format the column in excel but that has to be done through the perl script itself. So please provide a quick answer soon. Help at the earliest needed. Thanks!