I may be wrong, I am kind of new at this, but I believe there is one more problem with your regex. If you are trying to match 5 and only 5 digits, you need to drop the comma as well. Page 68 of the nutshell book says the {n,} will match at least 5 or more. You need to use {5} to match 5 and only 5 digits.

  unless ($num =~ /^\d{5}$/) {

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Even with an anchor /^\d{5,}$/ will match any line that starts with at least 5 numbers but contains more than 5 numbers.

Update: I see after re-reading your problem that you do want 5 or more. I was to excited about regex. It is the topic of discussion this week in a class I am taking.

Yoda

In reply to Re: Regex Pattern Problem by Yoda
in thread Regex Pattern Problem by THRAK

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