in reply to Re: Strip non-numeric
in thread Strip non-numeric

Ah, I didn't think of Unicode. I briefly considered the locale awareness, but couldn't think of any case where that would change the meaning of \d.

Makeshifts last the longest.

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Strip non-numeric
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jan 14, 2003 at 10:25 UTC
    There could be a locale that considers ¼, ½ and ¾ to be numeric.

    Abigail

[reply]

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom