Hi, Suppose I have the output of this command date +%d.%H
which outputs: 06.11 I want to adjust the last two digits to less 1: such that it becomes 06.10.. how do I do that? perhaps something like this. s/\d+$/(regexp being lookup minus 1/ thanks! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>