Hi Monks!

I am trying to fix some display issues with dates, but for some reason I can't figure it out why my code isn't working on today's date, here is what I have, I just can't see where the problem is, and why today's date is matching on L1, since I have to digits starting the first part of the date value, here is the code :

#my $date = "$mon/$mday/$year";
my $date = "10/13/2006";
if ($date=~/(\d{1})\/(\d{2})\/(\d{4})/){

    $date="0".$1."\/".$2."\/".$3;
    
    print "<br>L1 - $date<br>";

}elsif($date=~/(\d{2})\/(\d{1})\/(\d{4})/)
    {
    $date=$1."\/0".$2."\/".$3;
    print "<br>L2 - $date<br>";

}else{

    $date=~/(\d{1})\/(\d{1})\/(\d{4})/;
    $date="0".$1."\/0".$2."\/".$3;

}

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Thanks for the Help!!!

formatting cleaned up by GrandFather

In reply to Matching Date by Anonymous Monk

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