I nearly came close to writing another entire script all by myself without help!! yay me!! I'm actually getting more fluent with perl syntax and being able to debug and understand my own coding but I still have difficulty understanding new things until people tell me what it is and why I need it.

I was testing a variable against a regex so it had to contain nothing but numbers and a single decimal point. I had no clue how to do this so someone told me to use while($interest !~ /^-?\.?\d+(?:\.\d+)?$/) { Can someone please explain to me what each of those things are doing? This totally confuses me.

Thanks everyone!

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sulfericacid

In reply to What does this regex do? by sulfericacid

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