On Sep 19, dan said:
>i have a string $limit and i need to check it contains numbers and nothing
>else.
>
>i thought ($limit !~ /\d/) did the job, since i used to be good at this,
>i've slacked the last 6 months or so, and forgotten some of the more obvious
>things. when i find out, i'll probably slap myself and go "ahh that's it!"
You can use
if ($limit =~ /^\d+$/) {
# it's only digits (and a possible newline at the end)
}
or
if ($limit !~ /\D/) {
# $limit does NOT have a NON-digit
}
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