Re: easy (should be) perl question..

Hi,

    Here is one I use to check is it's not all numbers.

            if (!($H_phone =~ /^[0-9]*$/)) {

Scotty.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <CHarris(at)checkfree.com>
To: <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 1:34 PM
Subject: easy (should be) perl question..


> i'm trying to verify that input is numeric.  the following scenarios have
> not worked:
> 
> $octet1 = ABC;     # how it's defined to test it
> 
> if ( $octet1 =~ / \D / )
> 
> if ($octet1 =~ / ^0-9 / )
> 
> if($octet1 =~ / [^0-9] / )
> 
> any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> Chris Harris, MCSE
> Staff Technical Analyst
> Transmissions Implementations
> 512-377-6170
> 

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