Guruguhan N wrote: > > Hi All, Hello,
> 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? That is a Frequently Asked Question and can be found in the standard perl documentation (perlfaq4) by running this on the command line: perldoc -q "How do I determine whether a scalar is a number/whole/integer/float" John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>