Donna Runyon wrote:
> 
> Is there a perl function to check if a value is alphabetic or numeric?

You could use the POSIX character classes to determine this.

perldoc perlre


> The problem is I have listing which contain numbers such as "3rd floor".
> These are being loaded into a sql table using soundex('%s').  Soundex
> results to null if the entry starts with a number.

Maybe using Metaphone will work better than Soundex?


John
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