Why this code doesn't functionnate?

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.

  **Your code so far**

function telephoneCheck(str) {


let regex=/(^1?)(-?)(\s?)(\(?)([0-9][0-9][0-9])(\))(-?)(\s?)([0-9][0-9][0-9])(-?)(\s?)([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]$)/
return regex.test(str);

}

console.log(telephoneCheck("555-555-5555"));

  **Your browser information:**

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:100.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/100.0

Challenge: Telephone Number Validator

Link to the challenge:

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it requires the presence of the )

And as a side note, this regex could be greatly optimized. You don’t need that many capturing groups, also, you may use quantifiers and escape sequences for digits.

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