in reply to regex to deny characters?

gjb and newrisedesigns, you did have me wrong. I needed at least one lower case letter and the ability to accept an optional hypen or space. In other words:
sdlfj   OK
dsfj-dlf   OK
dish dslf   OK
dsf-ldj sdf   OK
-   NOT OK
 (space character)   NOT OK
*$)#&%_!@...   NOT OK

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(z) Re^2: regex to deny characters?
by zigdon (Deacon) on Dec 09, 2002 at 14:44 UTC
    OK, so you were pretty close: 
    while (<DATA>) {
  chomp;
  print "$_ ";
  if (/^[a-z][a-z \-]*/) {
    print "OK\n";
  } else {
    print "NOT OK\n";
  }
}

__DATA__
sdlfj
dsfj-dlf
dish dslf
dsf-ldj sdf
-
  
*$)#&%_!@...

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