can a map + regex be used to generate variables for YYYY-MM-DD-HH? I cant use 'if' in the location i am trying this.

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I know i can do:
if ($time_iso8601 ~ "^(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})") {
set $year $1;
set $month $2;
set $day $3;
}

or with perl regex:
if ($time_iso8601 ~ "^(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})T(\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2})")
{
set $year $1;
set $month $2;
set $day $3;
set $hour $4;
set $minutes $5;
set $seconds $6;
}