Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hey i have data which looks like @data=("conteent" , , , ,25.36,36.36,85.1,.....) . So i want a if statement whose block is accessed only when numeric part comes. Point to be noted is all have decimal points . I did this 

if ($data[$i] =~ /^[0-9]+$/)
{

}

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but still its not working , maybe because of decimal point . need help

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Re: only numeric data
by tobyink (Canon) on Jun 28, 2013 at 05:48 UTC 
    /^[0-9.]+$/

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    Though it depends on what you count as numeric. What about "1.2.3"? What about "infinity"?

    package Cow { use Moo; has name => (is => 'lazy', default => sub { 'Mooington' }) } say Cow->new->name
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      hey this is a surety that numeric data will be some finite numbers with decimal like 25.1 , 998.1 , 55.1 ,56.9

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Re: only numeric data
by arnaud99 (Beadle) on Jun 28, 2013 at 07:18 UTC

    Hi

    Would using looks_like_number() help?

    use Modern::Perl;
use Scalar::Util qw /looks_like_number/;

my @data=("conteent" , , , ,25.36,36.36,85.1,'xx','.....');

for (@data) {
    say $_ if looks_like_number($_);
}

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    Output

    ~/perl/ex/perlmonks: perl check_numbers.pl 
25.36
36.36
85.1

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    I hope this helps

    Arnaud

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Re: only numeric data
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 28, 2013 at 07:08 UTC
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