I've been kicking around this stuff pretty much all day, so I decided to get some help. Basically I need to check a date format with regex in a cgi application. Here is my code: 
if ($dated =~ m/^[0-3][0-9]\/[0-1][0-9]\/[1-2][0-9][0-9][0-9]$/)
{
}
else
{
#User entered an invaild date.
$passfail = 0;
$errmsg = 'Unable to use date format. Please use "MM/DD/YYYY" or MM-DD
+-YYYY for the Date Delivered Field';
$errtitle = 'Validation Error';
$seconds = 7;
}

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I don't really understand regex no matter how much reading I do, its just very difficult to understand at a glance. I will also be needing to check $dated to see if its blank. So it could either be MM/DD/YYYY or nothing. I'm sure I'm getting close, but no matter what that is always doing the "else statement"

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