in reply to Convert date into day and month

        my ($date, $file_name) = split(",");
...
        my ($month, $day, $year) = split(m@/@, $date);

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You should check $date's contents to make sure that you get it and what you've got.

You write your date has information separated by whitespace yet you match on a slash: / - that can't work, can it?

Cheers, Sören

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