in reply to Re^4: Oddness with regex quantifiers
in thread Oddness with regex quantifiers

No difference.
$ perl -E'say "aaa" =~ /a{2,}/' 1 $ perl -E'say "aaa" =~ /a{2,1}/' Can't do {n,m} with n > m in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/a{2,1} <-- + HERE / at -e line 1.