i think qq is correct here when he says you should try using a CSV module from CPAN.DBD::CSV or DBD::AnyData. With it you could just use a select style query on the file from STDIN. like so ...

use DBD::CSV;

my $input = "test.csv";

my $dbh = DBI->connect(qq{DBI:CSV:});
    $dbh->{'csv_tables'}->{'info'} = { 'file' => "$input",
                                   'eol' => "\n",
                                   'col_names' => ["ID", "date"]};

my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM info WHERE date=?");

print "Enter a date to seach for MM/DD/YYYY: ";
my $date = <STDIN>;
chomp($date);

$sth->execute($date);
my @array;
while(@array = $sth->fetchrow_array){
    print "$array[0], $array[1]\n";
}

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with the test.csv being (example)
1,02/03/2004
2,09/04/1976
3,01/13/1998
4,02/04/2006
5,02/07/2004
6,02/03/2004
which should give you want you want 

localhost% ./csv
Enter a date to seach for MM/DD/YYYY: 02/03/2004
1, 02/03/2004
6, 02/03/2004

update:I should pay more attention in examples. I formatted your date incorrectly. It will still work with your format.

In reply to Re: Re: Parsing a date from comma-delimited file by jaco
in thread Parsing a date from comma-delimited file by playing18

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