Hi Friends,

I've a special requirement, even though I know how to implement this using shell scripting, current requirement is PERL, in which I'm not much familiar !!!.

I've a record, which has around 200 fields, out of which I need to extract only one date value from the 97th field (this field itself has many comma seperated values including date values). Below is one such an example record (observation need more attention to identify fields).

field1, field2,.....,field96,
("2008/12/17 2009/03/16 0.000000 0.000000 2009/03/16,
2009/03/16 2009/06/15 0.000000 0.000000 2009/03/18,
.......................,,
2009/03/16 2009/06/15 0.000000 0.000000 2009/03/18"),
field98,.....,field200

My requirement is to extract the second date field (marked with blue, underlined) from the last sub-field (this is also comma separated) of the field 97.

Any help would be much appreciated on this challenging task!!!

Thanks in advance / Mysore Ganapati.