I just can't see where the problem is, and why today's date is matching on L1

Why shouldn't it? It has a number followed by a slash and then 2 numbers... Maybe you want to anchor the regex to the beginning and end of the string?:

my @dates = qw| 10/13/2006 1/13/2006 10/1/2006 1/1/2006 |;
foreach my $date (@dates) {
    if ($date =~ m|^(\d{1,2}) / (\d{1,2}) / (\d{4})$|x) {   ## <-- anc
+horing
        $date = sprintf "%02d/%02d/%04d", $1, $2, $3;
    }
    print "result: <$date>\n";
}
__END__
result: <10/13/2006>
result: <01/13/2006>
result: <10/01/2006>
result: <01/01/2006>

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Update: Typo fix.

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David Serrano

In reply to Re: Matching Date by Hue-Bond
in thread Matching Date by Anonymous Monk

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