Re: Regular Expressions

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Kyrytow, Stefan wrote:

> As you can see the last two inputs should not be accepted. I am using $x =~
> /[0-9]/ as my filter. I understand why the values are being accepted, I am
> searching for a number and 12bob & bob12 each contain a number.
>
> What I do not understand is how to search for just a number.

The problem is that your regexp is matching *any* string that contains the
pattern.  You want to narrow your expression down a bit.

Try:

$x =~ /^\d+$/.

-- Brett