While searching a text file for dates, this program prints the text surrounding the date as well, but is only supposed to print the date. I have obviously missed something, any suggestions would be appreciated. 

$dir = 'C:/texts/';
opendir(directory, $dir) or die "cant";
while ( $file = readdir directory)
{
    next if $file=~/^\./;
    $rfname = $dir.$file;
    # print "Found file: '$rfname'\n";
    open (CONT, $rfname);
    while (<CONT>)
    {
        if ( $_ =~ m/[0-3]?[0-9(th)?(st)?(nd)?(rd)?]\s+(Jan(uary)?|Feb
+(ruary)?|Mar(ch)?|Apr(il)?|May|Jun(e)?|Jul(y)?|Aug(ust)?|Sep(tember)?
+|Oct(ober)?|Nov(ember)?|Dec(ember)?)\s+[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9][0-9]/ig )
        {
            print "$file\t $_\n";
        }
        elsif ( $_ =~ m/(Jan(uary)?|Feb(ruary)?|Mar(ch)?|Apr(il)?|May|
+Jun(e)?|Jul(y)?|Aug(ust)?|Sep(tember)?|Oct(ober)?|Nov(ember)?|Dec(emb
+er)?)\s+[1-3]?[0-9](th)?(nd)?(st)?(rd)?\s+[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9][0-9]/ig )
        {
            print "$file\t $_\n";
        }
    }

}

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Petruchio Thu Jul 12 01:55:32 EDT 2001: Added code tags.

In reply to Problem extracting date with regex by Anonymous Monk

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