Re: regex question matching dates

John W. Krahn wrote:


} 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);
.