To capture the second occurance you have to surround the {2} with parens.
print join "/", ($date =~ /(\d{4})(\d{2}{2})/)[1,2,0]
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Subject: regex capturing
> $\ = "\n";
> $date = "20020731";
> print join "/", ($date =~ /(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})/)[1,2,0]; # this works
> print join "/", ($date =~ /(\d{4})(\d{2}){2}/)[1,2,0]; # this doesn't
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> why did the second pattern not capture the second occurance of \d{2} ?
> Is this the correct action? or should it capture the second one in the
> second example?
> Is there a way to capture like so (like second example as I expected it to
> work)?
>
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> Nikola Janceski
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