Joel Divekar wrote: > Hi Hello,
> I am having a small program which parses data file. > The data file contains decimal values and I am not > able to validate the decimal number. > > For eg. the decimal number will be as follows > > Max Size : 99999.99 > valid values : 3.00 or 745.15 or 21576.00 > invalid values : 3.001 or 745.1555 or 215766.00 > also 3..00 should be marked invalid. > > I am not good with RE but I tried following code, but > I am not sure if I am in right direction. Can anybody > help or guide me ? perldoc -q "How do I determine whether a scalar is a number" 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>