Hi there, I'm sorry if the description wasn't clear for you. That's what code golfing is always about; they measure your entire code length, not a specific part of your code.

And if I may guess, it seems like you wrote something other than regex, because there's no way your code will be detected as 60 characters when your regex pattern is only 23 characters.

Write a regex pattern ... in 25 characters or less

25 characters is the limit of your entire code, not regex itself.