I'm matching a SQL date like this: $ftime =~ /(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)\s+(\d+):(\d+):(\d+)/; If $ftime is "2001-05-13 11:53:00", then $1 is "2001", $2 is "05", etc. However, I also want to match if the user types in a partial string. For example, if $ftime is "2001-12-18", I want $1, $2 and $3 to be "2001", "12" and "18" but $4 to be null. In reality, my regex fails entirely and $1 is null. How can I get $1, $2, $3, $4, $5 and $6 to contain as many matches as my input string has? Do I have to use 6 separate regexes?
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