Hi monks,

(This is little bit related to the $1 vs $+ post, but since I am asking different thing, I split it into 2 post)

I have this complex regex to do the date matching

$s =~ s/\ ((0?[1-9]|1[0-2])\/(0?[1-9]|[1-2][0-9]|3[0-1])\/(19|20)?[0-9
+][0-9](\s(((0?[0-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-3]):[0-5][0-9](:[0-5][0-9])?)|((0?[0-9
+]|1[0-2]):[0-5][0-9](:[0-5][0-9])?\s(AM|PM))))?)\ /\n$1\n/g;

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it work fine with slash, but I want to extend it into hypen and even comma. The solution I see is to extend the \/ into character class or OR matching. I can see it can work fine for 80% condition, but I also expect the incoming file is contains date with messive code, so those thing may appear

03/20, 2008

how can I make sure the second delimiter must same as previous one?

Thank you.

In reply to The first match affect the following of the regex by Anonymous Monk

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