Regular Expression confusion

From: Christie Taylor (c.taylor_at_no.spam)
Date: 10/31/04 

Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:05:51 -0400

I'm new to regular expressions and am trying to create a fairly simple
one to validate input. The goal is to accept an optional word followed
by zero or one spaces, then a required number of 1 to 8 digits.

I tried m/^word\s{0,1}\d{1,7}/i to get started (ignoring my optional
part) but this is not working, it's matching on way too much. What am I
missing?

Thanks!

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