Hi Monks,
I am trying to match against this Thu Feb 3 14:32:52 2005 in the text file below, the file will have multiple entries like the block of data here, and I need to match against the time stamp so the user wouldn't entry stuff twice, it seems that my regular expression isn't working, can someone tell what is the best way to do it?
Thank you!
@:1107459172::1
MORe TEXT
<br>okokoko
<br>TEXT
MORE TITLE
twisted.gif
Thu Feb  3 14:32:52 2005

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  open(DATA,"db.txt") or die $!;
   while(<DATA>){
      chomp;
      my @array=$_;

  if(@array=~/(.*)(\d+:\d+:\d+)(.*?)/g)
  do code...
  }

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20050204 Edit by castaway: Changed title from 'Reg. Ex.p Match'

In reply to Using regex to match date and time by Anonymous Monk

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