I want to be able to do the following:

myprog.pl -h <host> -d DD/MM/YYYY ] HH:MM:SS -e DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM:SS

This code will only capture DD/MM/YYYY, while ignoring HH:MM:SS as well as the entire argument to -e

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Getopt::Std;

getopts('c:d:e:h:');
our ($opt_c, $opt_d, $opt_e, $opt_h);

# check our switch values

if ($opt_h) { &help; }
if ($opt_c) { my $client = $opt_c; } #else { &help; }

print "d = $opt_d\ne = $opt_e\n";

&help unless  ( ($opt_d, $opt_e) =~ m/(\d{2})\/(\d{2})\/(\d{4})(.*?)$/
+  );

sub help {

print <<HELP;

usage: $0 -c <client> -d <begin date> [time] -e <end date> [time]

Date must be in the format "DD/MM/YYYY", i.e., 09/04/2002.
Time is optional. If it was included in the email you received from se
+curity, then enter it.
Time must be entered as "HH:MM:SS".

example: $0 -c eman -d 09/01/2002 04:00:00 -e 09/04/2002 23:59:59

HELP

exit 1;

}
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Running this code snippet produces the following output:

Useless use of a variable in void context at ./tape-pull.pl line 18.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./tape-pu
+ll.pl line 16.
d = 09/01/2002
e = 
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at ./tape-pull.pl li
+ne 18.

usage: ./tape-pull.pl -c <client> -d <begin date> [time] -e <end date>
+ [time]

Date must be in the format "DD/MM/YYYY", i.e., 09/04/2002.
Time is optional. If it was included in the email you received from se
+curity, then enter it.
Time must be entered as "HH:MM:SS".

example: ./tape-pull.pl -c eman -d 09/01/2002 04:00:00 -e 09/04/2002 2
+3:59:59
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Does anyone have any ideas as to how to work around this?