> I go about converting the above number into something that resembled a
> date?

concat(substring(.,1,2),'/',substring(.,3,2),'/',substring(.,5,4))

> And also, I'd like to perform a test on a number to determine if it's
> positive or negative. 

test="$balanace < 0"

David

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