Re: [MacPerl] More Perl Starmapping

[Brian McNett <webmaster@mycoinfo.com>]

> Your regex can be reduced to /[A-Za-z\s]/ with the same functionality.  But
> that still allows things like '!@#$%^&*()_+', which isn't really numeric.

True, but the input values can be negative, or have a "+" in them, so 
"pure" numeric values AREN'T what I want.

> A simple regex that just enforces characters would be something like
> /[-+\d.e]/.

Thanks!

> The most reliable method for verifying that a value is numeric is trapping
> warnings, but that may be more than you need.

Uh, yah, Uh-huh... ;-)



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