What I basically need to know is how to go about parsing the information from the records themselves, once I get the information read into the array. An idea that came to me was to make an array of hashes, with each hash being a single record. I then could go through each hash, looking for a specific value in the date, putting those records into a separate array, then printing out that array, but I am not quite sure how I would go about doing that.

TStanley
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