Try in this way. Just remove "my", you will get it.
What kind of stupid advice is that?
$filedate = "C:/directory/MSISExport_20040814.csv"; ($filedate) =~ s/(\_\d+)//g;
Left aside that the parentheses are redundant, that does the opposite of what the OP asked for.
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