You parsed it incorrectly. (I parsed broquaint's regex incorrectly). By just adding whitespace I get the following:

/ C (?: 800 ) |
  (?: (?: 35 |
          29 )
      (?: (?: 50 ) |
          (?: 00XL )
      )
  ) /x

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Which shows that some (?:) were completely useless. This imposes zero runtime overhead so it only really matters because it makes it harder for the next programmer to read. In removing the useless (?:) groups I get.

/ C800 |
   (?: 35 | 29 )
   (?: 50 | 00XL )
   /x

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In reply to Re: Re: A question of 'or' in a Regex by diotalevi
in thread A question of 'or' in a Regex by c

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