Re: Need regex to match all UPPERCASE letters?

[Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan]

On Jul 23, KEVIN ZEMBOWER said:

>I need help writing a regular expression that will match lines that have
>only upper case letters, and sometimes slashes and spaces, but won't
>match lines with mixed case.
>
>Lines that must be matched are like:
>FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH POLICY
>FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PROJECTS
>PUBLIC HEALTH
>HIV/AIDS

You should probably just use a regex like:

  if ($line !~ /[a-z]/) {
    # it's ok
  }

That regex says "if $line does NOT contain a lower-case letter, let it
pass."

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