G'day tony

15 Sep 04 10:42, tony summerfelt wrote to David Drummond:

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

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

 ts> $scalar="123test"

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

Thanks - simple when one knows how :-)

Regards,
David

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