Re^3: Best practice validating numerics with regex?

Oops, my bad. I wrote this comment re my definition of 'efficient' without logging in, so it is cataloged under anonymous rather than me, perlboy_emeritus. Perhaps some kind soul with admin rights can attach my real ID to that post. And perhaps I'm overstepping the purpose of perlmonks.org? I'm looking for an interesting discussion of ways and means rather than a single solution to a pending problem. Perhaps that is not what perlmonks.org is for, and if I am out of line, I will stop posting these questions.

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Re^4: Best practice validating numerics with regex? by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Oct 17, 2023 at 11:38 UTC
And perhaps I'm overstepping the purpose of perlmonks.org? I'm looking for an interesting discussion of ways and means rather than a single solution to a pending problem. Perhaps that is not what perlmonks.org is for, and if I am out of line, I will stop posting these questions. You are not overstepping the purpose of perlmonks.org. That Perl Monks is a very different place to Stack Overflow is indicated by this classic quote from Perl Monks pioneer tye: Most languages are like stackoverflow: I have a question, I want the best answer. Perl is like PerlMonks: I have a doubt, I want to read an interesting discussion about it that is likely to go on a tangent. q-: To improve your regex, as noted by Discipulus here, I suggest you check out every node written by tybalt89 ... oh, and given it provides a "single regular expression that defines a set of independent subpatterns suitable for matching entire Perl documents", you might also enjoy studying PPR, written by TheDamian. 👁️🍾👍🦟	[reply]

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Re^4: Best practice validating numerics with regex?
by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Oct 17, 2023 at 11:38 UTC

And perhaps I'm overstepping the purpose of perlmonks.org? I'm looking for an interesting discussion of ways and means rather than a single solution to a pending problem. Perhaps that is not what perlmonks.org is for, and if I am out of line, I will stop posting these questions.

You are not overstepping the purpose of perlmonks.org. That Perl Monks is a very different place to Stack Overflow is indicated by this classic quote from Perl Monks pioneer tye:

Most languages are like stackoverflow: I have a question, I want the best answer. Perl is like PerlMonks: I have a doubt, I want to read an interesting discussion about it that is likely to go on a tangent. q-:

To improve your regex, as noted by Discipulus here, I suggest you check out every node written by tybalt89 ... oh, and given it provides a "single regular expression that defines a set of independent subpatterns suitable for matching entire Perl documents", you might also enjoy studying PPR, written by TheDamian.

👁️🍾👍🦟

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