The Data::Validate module has a is_hex function for which the source looks like this: 
sub is_hex {
    my $self = shift if ref($_[0]); 
    my $value = shift;
    
    return unless defined $value;
    
    return if $value =~ /[^0-9a-f]/i;
    $value = lc($value);
    
    my $int = hex($value);
    return unless (defined $int);
    my $hex = sprintf "%x", $int;
    return $hex if ($hex eq $value);
    
    # handle zero stripping
    if (my ($z) = $value =~ /^(0+)/) {
        return "$z$hex" if ("$z$hex" eq $value);
    }
    
    return;
}

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Note that this module does not support the '0x' hexadecimal syntax, so you would have to strip that off yourself. 
use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Validate qw(:math);

my @data = qw(1234 ABCD 0x1234 foo 0xABCD bar);

foreach my $val (@data) {
  if (defined(is_hex($val))) {
        print "$val\tis hex";
    } else {
        print "$val\tis not hex";
    }
}
__END__

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$ perl -l 629540.pl
1234    is hex
ABCD    is hex
0x1234  is not hex
foo     is not hex
0xABCD  is not hex
bar     is not hex

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--
Andreas

In reply to Re: Regular expression for hexadecimal number by andreas1234567
in thread Regular expression for hexadecimal number by isha

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