N, Guruguhan (GEAE, Foreign National, EACOE) wrote: > Hi All, > I wanted to check whether the user input is only a number > and does contain any alphabet/s anywhere i.e. starting, end or > in-between. Can somebody tell me how to do this?
I assume you mean "does NOT contain any ..." chomp(my $input = <STDIN>); die "Invalid input\n" if $input =~ /\D/; \D in a regex matches any non-digit character. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>