how to test for numeric user input?

2003-02-04 Thread Gary Merrick
I'm taking a beginning Perl class, and we haven't gotten to pattern matching yet. I need to somehow test for user input being numeric. I think. <:-) The second "elsif" is where I'm hung up. It seems to catch any kind of invalid input, text or numeric. Also, without the first "elsif" statement

logical "and" pattern matching

2003-02-19 Thread Gary Merrick
Ok, so this is probably a stupid question, but I'm a newbie, and therefore stupid. :-] It'll take you about 5 seconds to figure this one out. I have an assignment that requires me to find words in a dictionary that contain all five vowels (a, e, i, o, and u). I've figured out the logical "or" p

RE: logical "and" pattern matching

2003-02-19 Thread Gary Merrick
>Homework help is a touchy subject on this list. What have you tried? > >Have you read: >perldoc perlop >perldoc perlretut Yow! Ok, I have now. I suppose I've missed something, since I haven't yet come up with a solution. :-\ >One sticky point with and/or is that you need to break complex >sta