c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le "use strict; use warnings; ;; my $line = 'OD44202,07/01/2015,08/19/2019,08/27/2019,1,07/01/2015,06/30/2019,2015-06-20 00:00:00'; ;; $line =~ s/(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})\s\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}/\2\/\3\/\1/g; print qq{>$line<}; " \2 better written as $2 at -e line 1. \3 better written as $3 at -e line 1. \1 better written as $1 at -e line 1. >OD44202,07/01/2015,08/19/2019,08/27/2019,1,07/01/2015,06/30/2019,06/20/2015<