I am trying to keep some content from displaying on my website during holidays, I have the following. $mday is the day of the month, $mon is month number which I am matching to an array of month names, first I check to see if the month contains a holiday then I check to see what day it is and finally if they are both a match I hide the chat, my problem is that on my third regex it matches any day that has a one in it which is not what I want, I only want like 1, and 18, how can I fix this? I am looking for a very simple solution as this website will be phased out by the end of the year, which is why I didn't do date:manip or business:date or whatever to do this. 
     my @abbr=qw(Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec);
     if ($abbr[$mon]=~/Jan|Feb|May|Jul|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec/)
     {
     # $response writes are old code debug write outs.. $Response->wri
+te("$abbr[$mon] $mday");
     if (($abbr[$mon]=~/Jan/) && ($mday=~/1|18/))
     {
     #close chat for these days.. 
      $str.="</config>";
     return $str;
     #$response->write("Happy New Year");
     }

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In reply to help with a regex by learn2earn

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