Hi, I'm fairly new to Perl, and trying to do a simple operation on a text file exported from excel. ID Enrolled Extraneous Columns.... 3008 05-Aug-03 3008 05-Aug-03 3008 05-Aug-03 3008 05-Aug-03 3008 24-Sep-03 3009 11-Aug-03 3010 19-Nov-03 3010 11-Jul-03 3010 11-Jul-03 3010 11-Jul-03 3011 15-Jul-03 As you can see, the dates for a given ID are different. What I need to do, is set the dates all to the earliest date for that ID (client-birth date). The other columns are are important, but don't factor in here. I'd appreciate any help. Thanks -John
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