in reply to Match 2 strings in same line

I don't know what's inside $logsIncDate, but you might want to escape the special characters (like the dot), to be sure to match it exactly. m<\Q$logsIncDate>;. See quotemeta.

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Re^2: Match 2 strings in same line
by hmb104 (Sexton) on Nov 25, 2013 at 17:23 UTC

    my $logsIncDate = `date +"%b %d %H"`;

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