> look ahead (?=/|-) would do that for me??

Possibly ?: not ?=

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/regexp11.htm
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/regexp18.htm

Although, in the regexp your working with... what does it matter if it
captures them or not?  Given the subexpression you're using, it's always
going to match SOMETHING, or the whole regexp is going to fail, so if you
get a match at all, you know the third and fifth subexpressions returned
are going to be either a slash or a dash.  Equally, they're going to be the
same length (ie: 1), you can safely assume that fact too.  I can see no
gain from doing a look-ahead.

I think you're making your life hard for yourself.

What exactly are you trying to do (other than matching a date, that is).

Adam

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