Hi monks. I'm doing quality assurance on a large number of free from text with pricing information.

Prices can have dot decimal with comma thousands separator, comma decimal with dot thousands separator, or no thousands separator at all. Maybe even no decimal. Since these are prices I'm expecting a currency, but sometimes this is missing so I'm not checking for that.

I'm cranking out a regex to do this, and tests to verify that everything works but... maybe a regex for this exists already? Something like Regexp::Common::Number::Promiscuous... ???

I didn't say anything in regexp common or googling around, but just in case I missed something, thought I would ask the monks.

Thanks if anyone can help :)

In reply to Promiscuously match what might be prices by tphyahoo

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