> brackets; it does not _capture_ 3 times. Only literally present/countable
> brackets capture.
Geee... I guess you are right :) Furthermore the following works without
complaining about ?:
perl -e "print 'ouch' unless ('123456-123256' =~
/^(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})(?:-(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2}))?$/ );"
I guess I went a little overboard with TIMTOWTDI :)
Thanks
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