HELP! - Pattern matching problem

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

I am trying to create an if statement that can only display out put if it is the letter v followed by 2 numbers (i.e. v14)OR just 2 numbers (i.e. 14). My current statement looks like this:

    if ($variable =~ /v\d{2}|\d{2}/) {
          print "$variable";
       } else {
          print "it is not in the proper form";
       }
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Can anybody help?

Edit: Added <code> tags. larsen

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Re: HELP! - Pattern matching problem by DamnDirtyApe (Curate) on Jul 24, 2002 at 17:52 UTC
You're very close; try this: `if ($variable =~ /^v\d{2}$\|^\d{2}$/)` [download] or `if ($variable =~ /^v?\d{2}$/)` [download] _______________ D a m n D i r t y A p e Home Node \| Email	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: HELP! - Pattern matching problem by mephit (Scribe) on Jul 25, 2002 at 04:17 UTC
`/^(v\d{2}\|\d{2})$/` works, in addition to what DamnDirtyApe said here. (Parens are your friends when using alternations in a regex.) -- There are 10 kinds of people -- those that understand binary, and those that don't.	[reply] [d/l]