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in reply to Take out date part of my field value

Simply substitute nothing for a pattern that matches your date. You may need to modify the pattern, and you probably should check out some of the excellent pages on regular expressions.

$field =~ s/^\(\d\d\/\d\d\/\d\d\)\s+//;



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