On Sep 9, Gergely Buday said:
while (<STDIN>)
{
if (/^[:alpha:]+$/)
{
print;
}
}
It seems that my perl (5.8.something) does not understand the
[:alpha:] posix syntax.
'[:alpha:]' belongs *in* a character class, it is not a character class.
if (/^[[:alpha:]]+$/) { ... }
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