OK Here is what I am doing. I am doing a SELECT into a Database. It gets a few fields which are all in the same format (12/03/2001 12:00:01.000). What I need to do is to look at each field. If they fall in that format (MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS.XXX) trim that .XXX off. How would you all suggest I do this? I know I need to do some sort of pattern match but due to I suck at regex (It is extremely hard for me to learn I am finding out) I am not sure how to go about this.... Here is my foreach statement: 
    foreach my $line (@rows) {
        $line =~ s/\t/\x09/ig;
        $line =~ s/\n/\x0A/ig;
        $line =~ s/\r/\x0D/ig;
        $line =~ s/"/'/ig;
        print FILE "\"$line\",";
        $cell++;
    }

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Thank you all loads for any help...

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perl -le '$cat = "cat"; if ($cat =~ /\143\x61\x74/) { print "Its a cat
+!\n"; } else { print "Thats a dog\n"; }'

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In reply to Pattern Match/Trim Variables. by LostS

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