Hello David.

15 Sep 04 21:39, you wrote to PERL experts:

 DD> G'day

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

some sort of regex ?
first you need to define "straight numeric"

does 2.2 qualify ?  how about is 1e5 ? 0xdeadbeef ? 0800 ? 3-1/2 ?

Jasen

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