Thanks. That is what I ended up doing. I once encountered a really great function (in PHP, I think?) that would automatically convert a date from almost any format to the standard MySQL format. I wonder if anything like that exists in perl... Anyway, a regex certainly gets the job done, if not as elegantly as might be ideal.

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