As someone else mentioned, I'm not sure the word "truncate" quite fits. Here's a solution that gives you a bit more flexibility: 

| hand waving here...
my $fname = "20130101Customer100.imp";  # gotta go somewhere..
$fname =~ m@^(\d+)([A-Za-z0-9]+)\.imp$@; # Capture what we are looking
+ for...
my $dateStamp=$1;
my $basename=$2;
| do something with this.

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This will result in the scalar $dateStamp containing "20130101" and $basename containing "Customer100". The presumption I made (you didn't specify otherwise) was that your filenames all have the extension "imp" and as long as they do the regex I supplied you will work. I leave it as an exercise in intellect for you to modify the regex if there are other extensions involved.

Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
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In reply to Re: Removing digits from a string by blue_cowdawg
in thread Removing digits from a string by suneel.reddy

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