Could be worse :) 

#!/usr/bin/perl

# http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=1189605

use strict;
use warnings;
$| = 1;

sub err { die "ERROR: ", s/\G/<@_>/r, "\n" }

sub crossmap               # this is clear, isn't it?
  {
  my ($left, $right) = @_;
  [ map { my $prefix = $_ ; map $prefix.$_, @$right } @$left ];
  }

sub expr
  {
  my $answer = [ '' ];

  while( /\G (
      \|        (?{ 'ALTERNATION'    })
    | \d+       (?{ 'STRING'         })
    | \[ \d+ \] (?{ 'CHARACTERCLASS' })
    | \(        (?{ 'PARENTHESIS'    })
    ) /gcx )
    {
    goto $^R;

  ALTERNATION:
    $answer = [ @$answer, @{ expr() } ];
    next;

  STRING:
    $answer = crossmap $answer, [ $1 ];
    next;

  CHARACTERCLASS:
    $answer = crossmap $answer, [ $1 =~ /\d/g ];
    next;

  PARENTHESIS:
    $answer = crossmap $answer, expr();
    /\G\)/gc or err "missing ')'";
    }

  return $answer;
  }

while(<DATA>)
  {
  chomp;
  print "$_ => ";
  my $answer = expr();
  /\G\z/gc or err "incomplete parse";
  local $" = ',';
  print "@$answer\n";
  }

__DATA__
(65|70)
(3[678]|4[1678])
5[45]
(6[4569]|7[01])

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In reply to Re^4: Regular Expression Test by tybalt89
in thread Regular Expression Test by leoberbert

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