I’m really puzzled with this pattern matching thing…as a beginner in Perl I’m doing a simple HTML form where you have a textbox and some test data in it with text and dates like 03/11/02, 03-11-02 or 03/11/2002. And the thing is I’ve got to get another HTML page with all the data entered in the text field but with the respective dates changed to 3rd November 2002 respectively. I’ve got this code but at the moment it isn’t doing what I want. Regards Ric ########################################################## 
#!/cgi-bin/perl -w

use CGI;

# get the form data
$query = new CGI;
$textInput=$query->param('textInput');

#start the html page
print $query->header;
print $query->start_html(-title=>"Ric's");
print "<FONT SIZE='5'>\n";
print "The text entered was:<HR>\n";
print "</FONT>\n";

{
print "$textInput<BR>\n";
}

($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst) = localt
+ime(time);
$year =~ s/^\d(\d\d)$/$1/;
$mon++;
if(length($mon) < 2){$mon = "0" . $mon;}
if($year > 90)  {$year = "19" . $year;}
       else{$year = "20" . $year;}
if($min < 10){$min= "0$min";}

$textInput = "$mday/$mon/$year";

@month = ("-", "January", "February",
"March", "April", "May",
"June", "July", "August",
"September", "October",
"November", "December");

@monthPost = ("-", "st", "nd", "rd", "th", "th", "th", "th", "th", "th
+", "th", "th", "th", "th", "th", 
"th", "th", "th", "th", "th", "th", "st", "nd", "rd", "th", "th", "th"
+, "th", "th", "th", "th", "st");  

$textInput = "$mday$monthPost[$mday] $month[$mon] $year";

print "$textInput";

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