in reply to Challenge - Creative Way To Detect Alpha Characters

I don't know if this will work for all cases, but I was trying to be creative.

foreach (@alpha = split //,$foo) { $_++;
    if (($_**2 == 0) && ($_ != 1) ){
        print "$foo Contains Alpha Characters\n";
        last;
    } 
}

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