The !$& shortcut will fail to match zero. (I also note that the SUCCEED expression is redundant with just returning nothing.)
my @regexen = do { use re 'eval'; qr/(?:$QUOTED|$NUM)(??{FAIL if $& eq '.' or $& eq ''})/, qr/(?:$QUOTED|$NUM)(??{!$& || '.' eq $& ? FAIL : SUCCEED})/ }; my $teststr = 'xx0y-0z0.a..0b-0.c-.0d.d.0.0e-0.0'; print Dumper [ $teststr =~ /$_/g ] for @regexen; __END__ $VAR1 = [ '0', '-0', '0.', '.0', '-0.', '-.0', '.0', '.0e-0', '.0' ]; $VAR1 = [ '-0', '0.', '.0', '-0.', '-.0', '.0', '.0e-0', '.0' ];

Caution: Contents may have been coded under pressure.

In reply to Re^2: Forcing a regex to fail by Roy Johnson
in thread Forcing a regex to fail by Ovid

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