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My Perl question is I need to create a regular expression in Perl to find if anything except a positive integer was entered.

No letters or characters except a positive integer. For example the regular expression will check
12 good entry.
1a bad entry
4 good entry
1a bad entry
-3 bad entry
test bad entry

My attempt is not validating like I want it to: 
if($DataEntry =~ !/d.*+)
{
   print "bad entry";
}
else
{
   print "good entry";
}

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Please advise.

In reply to Check for Positive Integer entry only by Anonymous Monk

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