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Old 03-13-2012
You're welcome! There are many ways of coding the same solution. My last suggestion is just a different approach. I was focussing on the error message, also because there was no input file specified in the first post. Come to think of it, if you only want to change dates around, sed might be more natural choice for the job..
Code:
sed 's|\(..\)/\(..\)/\(....\)|\3-\1-\2|g' infile

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Old 03-13-2012
Thank you. I'll save for when I have to reformat just the dates in a file. For this task, I had to reformat other fields at the same time if they exist like phone number, zip codes, etc., while printing out only needed columns, that's why I was looking at awk.
Thanks again!
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