Re: regex question matching dates

John W. Krahn wrote:
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>>
>> } elsif ( $ARGV[0] =~ 
>> m/\b2008(0[1-9]|1[12])(0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-9]|3[01])([01][0-9]|2[0-3])\b/ 
>> ) {
>                   ^^^^^
> So you don't want to test for October?
>
>
>
> John
fixed now. thanks!!

} elsif ( $ARGV[0] =~ 
m/\b2008(0[1-9]|1[012])(0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-9]|3[01])([01][0-9]|2[0-3])\b/ ) {
      @array = qx#ls -tr $directory/$ARGV[0]*#;
      $hour = substr($ARGV[0], 8 , 2);
      $date_1 = substr($ARGV[0], 4 , 4);