Fixing your operator as others have suggested will give you valid perl code. It still may not do exactly what you want. First note that ARGV[1] refers to the second argument, not the first. A regular expression treats the argument as a string. Your regex will match any string that begins with the digit "0" or the characters "ALL" (case insensitive). I am not sure that this agrees with your idea of numeric '0'. (it will match the strings such as "0h, my" or "007") You probably do not intend it to match a mixed case string such as "aLl oR NoTHinG", but it will. It is often difficult to specify all the special cases correctly. It is impossible to get the regular expression right before you do.
Bill

In reply to Re: Testing a command line argument by BillKSmith
in thread Testing a command line argument by mike65535

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