First your regex is broken as you have got some / and \ mixed up. Your regex is seen by perl as 

m/\d{4}\-\d{2}/  -   m/d{2}/

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This is unfortunately valid as m// will return a true value if it matches (1) and false (0) if it does not and you can perform integer math on these results. This code should do what you want. You don't need the flag as you can just fail on the first error rather than going through the whole list every time.... 

for (@list) {
    next unless $_;
    unless ( m#\d{4}\-\d{2}\-\d{2}# ) {
        print "$_ is invalid, the date fields MUST be filled out corre
+ctly!";
      exit;
    }
}

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tachyon

s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print

In reply to Re: "or" or "||" problems by tachyon
in thread "or" or "||" problems by Silicon Cactus

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