I'm surprised there arent plenty of nodes of info on matching any type of number. But anyway, my problem has 2 steps

GOAL 1

# have $1 contain everything but the leading "0:"
# and the trailing ",$intOrFloat" ... in this case ",4.00"

# http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.3/pod/perlretut.pod
$intOrFloat = qr/^[+-]?\ *(\d+(\.\d*)?|\.\d+)([eE][+-]?\d+)?$/;

$_  = "0:20,1.00,g,1.00;65,4.00,g,4.00";
/0:(.)+,$intOrFloat/ and warn $1;

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# (for some reason $intOrFloat is not matching)

GOAL 2

# $1 contains a series of triplets separated by semicolons
# Each triplet consists of price,quantity,unit_of_measure
# The goal is to create an array of hashrefs with this data:
# { price => ..., quantity => ..., unit_of_measure => ... }

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In reply to Match integer or floating point numbers, then parse triplets by metaperl

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