Did you read your own posting? It contained this:

"Enter date of config file using : ";  
chomp ( $date_cfg = );
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If you didn't use < nor > then your code is seriously broken and won't even compile. It seemed clear that your second line was originally something like:

chomp ( $date_cfg = <STDIN> );
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And having such things stripped is only one consequence of you ignoring simple instructions. Try the "d/l code" link under your posting. It doesn't download any code, does it? I was quite specific in mentioning <code> and </code> tags. I'm sorry I didn't take the time to explain in detail why I recommended what I did.

Thanks for pointing that out! I didn't notice that. But, that's what happens when you sit in front of a computer for 3 days straight, learning to program, learning Perl, writing a program for a sadistic boss! From now on: tags!