Hi heezey,

Why not try without regex? 

print "yes" if not tr/a-zA-Z,//c and not ( str( $_, ',', 0) or str $_,
+ ',' ,-1);

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Did not check it but should work.

Cheers,

Jeroen "We are not alone"(FZ)

After some self-flaggalation: 

for (qw/ ,asd asd:asd asd, asd,asd asd,,asd/){
 my $test = $_;
 print "$test: ";
 print "yes" unless $test=~tr/a-zA-Z,//c or index( $test, ',') == 0 or
+ index( $test, ',') == -1 + length( $test) or index( $test, ',,') > 0
+;
 print "\n";
 }

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My perl clearly is rusty, and I even don't know anymore in which language str is valid ;).

However, still possible without regexes {grin}.

In reply to Re: regex: only want [a-zA-Z] and comma chars in a string by jeroenes
in thread regex: only want [a-zA-Z] and comma chars in a string by heezy

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