Hi Monks,
I have a regular expression that I am trying to do check in case the user doesn't type the correct currency format, but my reg. exp. seems not to be picking up on my format, here is the code and thanks for the help!

# sample matches: $3,023,123.34 / 9,876,453 / 123456.78 
# sample non-matches: 4,33,234.34 / $1.234 / abc   
            #"^\$?([0-9]{1,3},([0-9]{3},)*[0-9]{3}|[0-9]+)(.[0-9][0-9]
+)?$"
            #"^\$?([0-9]{1,3},([0-9]{3},)*[0-9]{3}|[0-9]+)(.[0-9][0-9]
+)?$"
             if ($payment=~/^\$?([0-9]{1,3},([0-9]{3},)*[0-9]{3}|[0-9]
++)(.[0-9][0-9])?$/g)
               {
               
        print "*match*$payment*match*<br>";
        
    }else{print "No match";}

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In reply to Regular Expression Currency Check by Anonymous Monk

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