die "malformed index file!" unless
  scalar ( grep { $_ =~ m[\d{3}-\d{3}] }, values %batch_ids ) == 6;
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is returning this error:

syntax error at readmagazine.pl line 21, near "},"
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where line 21 is the grep. Any ideas what the problem is? My suspicion is that the \d{3} is conflicting with grep's {}. Other than that, the syntax seems to be correctly formed to me...

thanks
brother dep.

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