On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:51:49 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donna
Runyon) wrote:

>Is there a perl function to check if a value is alphabetic or numeric?

#!/usr/bin/perl

print is_numeric(10),"\n";
print is_numeric('3rd'),"\n";

sub is_numeric {
no warnings;
use warnings FATAL => 'numeric';
return defined eval { $_[ 0] == 0 };
}

Also check out the  Regex::Common module.



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