thanks all for your input. I was thinking of using a regex based on matching x comma separated fields, and cutting it of the rest of the line, so that I would not have to hard code it based on a date or any other type of content.

something like

  $file =~ m/((\".*\"|\d+|[\d :]+),){6} (.*)/;
  $line = $1;
  $restoffile = $2;
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I'll see if this works, otherwise I'll punch up one of these suggestions.

rendier