regex question matching dates

[email protected] (Richard Lee) Thu, 29 May 2008 00:02:34 -0400

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given then ARGV[0] is 2008052803, why woulnd't below regex match them??

} elsif ( $ARGV[0] =~ m/\b2008[01][1-31]([01][0-9]|2[0-3])\b/ ) {
      @array = qx#ls -tr $directory/$ARGV[0]*#;
      #2008052803

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