Hey guys (and gals)... not used a lot of Perl before, but I've got to maintain a piece for someone. I'm looking at a line which seems to have a fault:  if ($_ =~ /^ERROR/ && $_ =~ /$month  $day/){push @errors, $_} the line of the file it is trying to match would look like ERROR: tablename      - Description of the error Fri Oct 26 10:12:41 2007 but I don't have any matches when it's clearly there. hope you can help guys, Regards, A p.s. $month and $day are created by means of: 
my $date = localtime;
my @fields = split /\s+/, $date;
my $year = pop @fields;
my $month = $fields[1];
my $day = $fields[2];

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