Well, you make use of Regexp::Common. For instance, by doing: 
    use Regexp::Common;
    $has_dollar_sign = $str =~ s/^([-+]?)\$/$1/;
    if ($str =~ /^$RE{num}{decimal}{-sep => ','}{-keep}$/) {
        $is_numeric        = 1;
        $sign              = $2;
        $has_decimal_point = $5 ? 1 : 0;
        $has_commas        = $str =~ /,/
    }

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Or you could take its regex and modify it to have an optional leading dollar sign.

Abigail

In reply to Re: classifying data by Abigail-II
in thread classifying data by sweetblood

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