#!/usr/bin/perl
$txt='11:Oct:2018 "This is an Example!"';
$re1='.*?';
$re2='((?:(?:AL)|(?:AK)|(?:AS)|(?:AZ)|(?:AR)|(?:CA)|(?:CO)|(?:CT)|(?:DE)|(?:DC)|(?:FM)|(?:FL)|(?:GA)|(?:GU)|(?:HI)|(?:ID)|(?:IL)|(?:IN)|(?:IA)|(?:KS)|(?:KY)|(?:LA)|(?:ME)|(?:MH)|(?:MD)|(?:MA)|(?:MI)|(?:MN)|(?:MS)|(?:MO)|(?:MT)|(?:NE)|(?:NV)|(?:NH)|(?:NJ)|(?:NM)|(?:NY)|(?:NC)|(?:ND)|(?:MP)|(?:OH)|(?:OK)|(?:OR)|(?:PW)|(?:PA)|(?:PR)|(?:RI)|(?:SC)|(?:SD)|(?:TN)|(?:TX)|(?:UT)|(?:VT)|(?:VI)|(?:VA)|(?:WA)|(?:WV)|(?:WI)|(?:WY)))(?![a-z])';
$re3='.*?';
$re4='\\d';
$re5='.*?';
$re6='\\d';
$re7='.*?';
$re8='(\\d)';
$re=$re1.$re2.$re3.$re4.$re5.$re6.$re7.$re8;
if ($txt =~ m/$re/is)
{
$usstate1=$1;
$d1=$2;
print "($usstate1) ($d1) \n";
}
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