simple regex

Ken Elliott posted this at 00:38 — 12th November 2001.

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hello this is what I am trying to do. I know it is fairly easy with regex unfortunately I really suck at it.

if ($this =~ m/any letter/g) {
execute..
}

so if scalar $this contains anything other then a number then it will excute this if statement.

Thanks for your help!
ken

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Mark Hensler posted this at 09:56 — 12th November 2001.

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I'm not the best at regex, but try this:

if ($this =~ m/^[^0-9]*$/g) { 
    # string without any numeric characters
}
if ($this =~ m/^[a-zA-Z]*$/g) { 
    # string containing only alpah characters
} 

Mark Hensler
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