You have a couple of '/' for '\' typos in the regex, and from your description, you should use the eq operator instead of ne. Also your $Flag variable is global and not reset, so if the first element of @list passes, the print and exit sequence is never reached.

Does this work for you?

for (@list) {
    if (! /\d{4}\-\d{2}\-\d{2}/ or $_ eq '') {
        die 'The date fields MUST be filled out correctly!', $/;
    }
}

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I changed the print; exit; sequence to die so that throw/catch can be done with eval, or a __DIE__ handler invoked. That will print the message to STDERR instead of the selected output handle.

You seem to suggest that or does not short-circuit. False, || and or only differ in operator precedence.

After Compline,
Zaxo

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

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