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 -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]