Re^3: Extracting money from a double quoted string

The code you posted already works for me, with the simple change of double to single quotes:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
$string='Price is $9.99 on our website';
($money) = $string =~ m/is\s\$([0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{2})\son/g;
print $money;
__END__
9.99
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Re^4: Extracting money from a double quoted string by sherab (Scribe) on Dec 06, 2014 at 18:59 UTC
You'll note that I pointed out in my original question that it works with ' '. Thanks	[reply]
Re^5: Extracting money from a double quoted string by Corion (Patriarch) on Dec 06, 2014 at 19:02 UTC
Then let me repeat what I gave as an answer in my first reply to you: As an alternative, you could quote the dollar sign, so that Perl knows you don't mean the variable $9: `my $string= "Price is \$9.99 on our website";` [download] What part of that answer does not apply to your problem? Is your question why `$string` does not contain the value `9.99` when you use double quotes? Is your question about the difference between double and single quotes in Perl? Is your question about what the variable `$9` contains?	[reply] [d/l] [select]