Hi,
I am at my wits end here. I am trying to change a date format from month/day/year to year-month-day. Easy right? This works as expected: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my $string = "9/1/2001";
my ($month, $day, $year) = split('/', $string);
my $new_date = join('-', $year, $month, $day);
print "$new_date\n";

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but this doesn't : 
...
my $string = $line[11];
my ($month, $day, $year) = split('/', $string);
my $new_date = join('-', $year, $month, $day);
...

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$new_date becomes: "-month-day". I tried:
$new_date = $year.'-'.$month.'-'.$day;

But I get the same result. After some experimentation, it seems the month is starting at the beginning of the string, and overwriting everything after it. During debugging, I see the split works fine, I just can't seem to put it back together correctly.


Can anyone enlighten me?

Thanks.

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