in reply to Re: Regex negative number question
in thread Regex negative number question

But then that rules out '-7.', which the OP explicitly wants to include.

You could try this (leaving out the non-capturing ?:s for clarity):

print "match" if $str =~ /-\d*((?<=\d)\.)|(\.(?=\d))/;

but then that would match if:

my $str = 'See answers on pages 234-235.'

oh well...

dave

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