On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 02:00:49PM +0100, Ing. Branislav Gerzo wrote:
> Mat Harris [MH], on Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 12:19 (+0000)
> contributed this to our collective wisdom:
> 
> >> Is there any special function for that job?
> 
> MH> personally I would use a rexex:
> MH> if ($myunknownvalue =~ m/^\d*$/)
> 
> personally I would change this regex to:
> if ($myunknownvalue =~ m/^\d+$/)
> because regex given matches also empty set ('')

very true. noted. I always forget about the greedy factor

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perl -e'$_=q#: 13_2: 12/o{>: 8_4) (_4: 6/2^-2; 3;-2^\2: 5/7\_/\7:\
        1           m m::#;y#:#\n#;s#(\D)(\d+)#$1x$2#ge;print'
        
Yes, of course it's the right cabl [le0: NO CARRIER]

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