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my $data_in="ISBN 90-70002-34-5"; $data_in=~ s/^ISBN//; $data_in=~ s/ /-/g; ... unless (($count eq 10) && (!($count=~ m/[a-z]/i))){ warn "not enough digits in ISBN: $count instead of 10\n"; }
# data from the database you are checking against my $data_in="90 70002 34 5"; # inputed data ... unless (($data_in eq $check_data) && (!($count=~ m/[a-z]/i))){{ die "failure: data in does not match db record\n"; }