#!/usr/bin/perl $input = ; @var = split(':',$input); $print = $var[0] . $var[1]; @new_data = split(//,$print); # splits it into chars :-) if($new_data[0] eq "0"){ $print = $new_data[1]; } else { $print = $new_data[0] . $new_data[1]; } if($new_data[2] eq "0") { $print = $print . $new_data[3]; } else { $print = $print . $new_data[2] . $new_data[3]; } print($print);