Can anyone tell me why this doesn't work? I'm a bit lost. 

use strict;
use diagnostics;

# ScheduleA has the format of:
# ,,,,,,,MultiPlex MP-7 Plan.pdf.sit
# ,,,,,,,MultiPlex S2.1 Main Plan.S.sit. . .
# ,,,,,,,MultiPlex S2.2 Upper PlanS.sit. . .
# ,,,,,,,MultiPlex S2.3 Roof Plan.S.sit. . .
# 1/24/2000,906,907,Johnston Sport Architecture Inc.,Lorne Mack
# 1/21/2000,908,908,Johnston Sport Architecture Inc.,Lorne Mack
# 1/19/2000,909,911,Johnston Sport Architecture Inc.,Lorne Mack
# ,,,,,,,Whitehorse FTP Memo.pdf
# ,,,,,,,1122 Whitehorse FTP 6.0/95


open (CSVFILE, "<schedulea.csv") or die "Can't open schedulea.csv";

while (<CSVFILE>) {
    if ($_ =~ /(^.*?),(\d+),(\d+),(.*?$)/) {
        $2 =~ ('0' x (6 - length($2))) . $2;
        $3 =~ ('0' x (6 - length($3))) . $3;
        print "$1,$2,$3,$4\n";
    }
    else {
        print $_;
    }
}

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Thanks!

Kickstart

In reply to Padding with zeroes fails by Kickstart

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