in reply to date regex

Anything can be done in a regex if you use /e, ?{ }, or ??{ }. I just don't promise it will be easy :)

If you want easy, look at Date::Manip or one of the other multitude of Date/Time modules on CPAN.

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I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be manipulated, and ended up creating an object system by accident.
-- Schemer

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