On Jul 23, Teresa Raymond said:
>How would you correct this expression to accept only alpha/numeric
>except the @ and . (period) symbols? In other words, how would I add
>multiple chars to exclude to the regex?
Err, you mean "accept only alphanumerics AND @ and .".
>if ($name=~/^W&&[^@]]+$/)
>{ print "Only the @ and . characters are allowed";
>}
You're missing some characters in there...
if ($name =~ /[^\w@.]/) {
# character other than A-Z, a-z, 0-9, _, @, ., and local letters used
}
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