note Thilosophy <i>but it gave me some error</i> <p>Hmm. Did it give you an error message to go along with the error? <p><i>The error seems to stem from here:</i> <code> my $dt = $Strp->parse_datetime($1); my $timestamp = $dt ->epoch(); my $refs = $2; </code> You suspect $1 and $2. Do they contain the value you think they should (add some debug output)? When using regular expressions, you should check if there actually was a match. 671582 671582