split and grouping in regexp

I'm trying to split a date where the values can be separated by a dash '-' or a slash '/', eg:
2006-10-31 or 2006/10/31

I'm using:
my ( $yyyy, $mm, $dd ) = split /(-|\/)/, $yyyymmdd;
but it doesn't work.

If I just do:
my ( $yyyy, $mm, $dd ) = split /-/, $yyyymmdd;
it works for dates separated by dashes, and if I do:
my ( $yyyy, $mm, $dd ) = split /\//, $yyyymmdd;
it works for dates separted by slashes.

Why can't I do both at the same time?

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