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in thread positive integer identification (regular expression question)

You're quite right about the use of ?. I forgot that it stands for {0,1}.

What would you say about /^[-+]?\d+\.?0*$/? No capturing or clustering parentheses necessary and it will accept an (optional) plus-sign as well.

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