Your immediate problem is that "my" creates a _new_, _lexical_ $New_mo in each of your if blocks. $New_mo reverts to its old value once you exit the block.

You'd have to write this, instead: 

my $New_mo;

# ==, not =
if ($Month == 0)
{
    # no my!
    $New_mo = 'Jan';
}
if ($Month == 1)
{
    $New_mo = 'Feb';
}
# ...

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An even better approach would be to create an array of month names, and use the $Month value as an index into that array, as the perldoc -f localtime entry would show you. 
my @monthNames=qw(Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct
                  Nov Dec);
my $New_mo = $monthNames[$month];

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Make sense?
--
Mike

(Edit: Use == instead of =)

(Edit again: I was SURE perldoc -f localtime used that as an example...)

In reply to Re: Converting output from numeric values to text by RMGir
in thread Converting output from numeric values to text by OnTheEdge

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