Hello all, Can someone tell me why the following regex does not work? What I want is just the date information "1st day of November 2005". Thanks a bunch! 

my $aa = "Accepted and agreed to by Jerry Smith as of the 1st day of N
+ovember 2005.";

if (     $aa =~ m{
    (?:as of)*
    (?:\s|\n)*    #for any possible space or line end    
    (?:this|the)*
    (?:\s|\n)*    #for any possible space or line end            
    (
    (?:[1-31])      #day, 1 to 31
    (?:st|nd|rd|th) #for all the cases like 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 25th
    (?:\s|\n)*      #for any possible space or line end
    (?:day of)*
    (?:\s|\n)*      #for any possible space or line end
    (?:January|February|March|April|May|June|July|
    August|September|October|November|December)
    (?:\s|\n)*    #for any possible space or line end
    (?:\,|\s)*      #for any possible space or comma end
    (?:\s|\n)*      #for any possible space or line end
    ([1,2]\d{2,3})  #year
    )
    (?:\,|\.|\s)*
    (?:[ ]{2}|\n|\z)*   #Two spaces, newline, or string end
    }ixmsg)    {
                
        print $1;
    }

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It works now. I am really grateful to davorg, Fletch, johngg, aggianni,anno, and shmem for all your helpful comments and suggestions. I just get to know PERL for about two weeks and it is great that I find this forum and so many nice and helpful experts here.

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