really fast regular expressoin question
 

how do I search a pattern for a numeric range?:

my $string="20050306"

I want to determine if 20050306 is between 20050101 and 20050608 with regex

using this:
$string=~m/[20050101-20050608]/

Sounds like your going at it all wrong, if your string is 20050101-20050608
then

($begin_date, $end_date) = split ('-', $string);

if ($string => $begin_date) && ($string <= $end_date) {
do this