Re: Re: Regex negative number question

You test would still, for example, match "birdie3 -.", which just illustrates why to use Regexp::Common, though ;-).
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Re: Regex negative number question by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Oct 06, 2003 at 22:14 UTC
Regexp::Common doesn't have a regexp for negative numbers, but you can easily add that yourself. For instance, if you want to match negative decimal numbers, use: `use Regexp::Common; /(?=-)$RE{num}{decimal}/` [download] The (?=-) requires the match to start with a minus sign. Abigail	[reply] [d/l]