Thanks.
That helped.
DBI was doing it's job. The str_to_date function was being passed as a string instead of a function.
I've learned quite a bit since I started building this thing.
45 hours getting right with my Perl skills with a lot of good help from The Monks...
Cheers!
I'm glad this helped, IMHO it's wise to familiarise yourself with debugging tools. An editor which supports Syntax_highlighting would also be advantageous.