tuxboy

Think that's just the way UNIX / Linux works. It will change the timestamp. Luckily, there is a command you could use to change it to the timestamp you need. Look into using the touch command. Cheers

Well, neither pieces of code work on my system. Here's the output for the code you say does work after I ran it with the warnings flag. Unquoted string "debug" may clash with future reserved word at exts.pl line 11. Name "main::stamp" used only once: possible typo at exts.pl line …

Tell us about the O/S you are using and how comfortable you are with issuing commands from the command line. If you have no coding skills or script skills it's hard to get a grip on how to help. If you are using UNIX / Linux, it might be a …

I do a lot of this type of thing in my day to day administration. Usually, I have control over the format of the flat file that is autogenerated, and I use a ':' or '|' char to delimit the fields. Now, I know this isn't a Perl answer, but …