I do not think that I would ever use a regex to match specific numbers in a given range. I would use a lookup table instead.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

# Zone 8
my %z8;
$z8{$_}++ for ( 10..374, 376..379, 382..385, 388..499, 530..534, 541..
+543, 618, 619, 700..704, 707..709 );

my $num = "34";
print "Found it!\n" if $z8{$num};

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Another option would be to pull the zone information using Business::UPS. Store it in a database or use Storable's freeze and thaw to save and load your data. You'll probably also want to determine how often to automatically freshen your information.

In reply to Re: Matching data against non-consecutive range by Mr. Muskrat
in thread Matching data against non-consecutive range by Popcorn Dave

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