Hello Marshall,

I want to be able to capture and understand different numbers coming in, not strings. I know that there are many examples how to check if the string is a number or an integer for example (A function to determine if a string is numeric).

I know that there are modules for this purpose (Scalar::Util).

But my goal is that I want with the use of a regular expression to determine what "category" is e.g. (integer, decimal, float).

This is the reason that I define my array my @numbers = (1, -1, 123.1, 0.1); without the qw so the values will not be strings but numbers.

Thank for you for your time and effort reading and replying to my question.

Seeking for Perl wisdom...on the process of learning...not there...yet!

In reply to Re^2: How do I determine with a regular expression whether a scalar is a number/whole/integer/float? by thanos1983
in thread [SOLVED] How do I determine with a regular expression whether a scalar is a number/whole/integer/float? by thanos1983

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