Hi Kutsu
Thank you for the response, I really appreciate the time that you took to respond back. Some answers to your questions:

I was using Date::Calc to get the current date and compare it to the date that I need to use as a cutoff for rows that I want to delete. If that is in error and I don't need it to do that, then I am fine to drop it.

The next question, Win32::OLE, I have put that on as a standard to most of my programs, so I have to admit that was out of habit.

Finally, even with your code, I still get an error uninitialized value in hash element..., and it points me to this section of code in line 29  $header_data{$newrow[2]} = [ $newrow[3..18] ];

I appreciate the links to the documents, I will print those out and read them. Thank you very much again.
Portree

In reply to Re^4: "Global Symbol Requires Explicit Package Name" error by Portree
in thread "Global Symbol Requires Explicit Package Name" error by Portree

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