Thanks so much! The second one does what I want (from what little bit of testing I've done). What I have so far looks like this now, after incorporating they suggestions by tadman and yourself: 
use strict;

while (<DATA>) {
   chomp;
   my $input = $_;
   tr/$, +//d;
   if (/^-?\d+(\.\d*)?$/) {
      print "Acceptable: '$input' -> ", int $_, "\n";
   } else {
      print "Not acceptable: '$input' -> $_\n";
   }
}

__DATA__
+30
-400
+20,0
-300.02
$ -50.1
-$ 500
- $ 60
 + $ 30.

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Output: 
Acceptable: '-400' -> -400
Acceptable: '+20,0' -> 200
Acceptable: '-300.02' -> -300
Acceptable: '$ -50.1' -> -50
Acceptable: '-$ 500' -> -500
Acceptable: '- $ 60' -> -60
Acceptable: ' + $ 30.' -> 30

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If there are anymore optimizations, corrections feel free to kibitz. Thanks all!

--Jim

In reply to Re: Re: Validating specific numeric input by jlongino
in thread Validating specific numeric input by jlongino

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