# On Wed, Sep 15/04 at 09:39 PM, David Drummond wrote to PERL experts:

 DD> Can anyone suggest a simple one line that determines if a variable
 DD> contains alpha/numeric data, or a straight numeric value?

$scalar="123test"

$scalar !~ /\D/ ? print "scalar only digits" : print "string
has other chars"


.t

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