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=~ s/[^\d.]//g; or you can borrow regex from How do I determine whether a scalar is a number/whole/integer/float?

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Re^2: extracting number from string
by samuelalfred (Sexton) on Mar 05, 2009 at 10:33 UTC
    Thank you, but this doesn't quite do what I want. If $number = "Price 15.40", the result from

    $number=~s/^\D.//g

    is

    $number = ice 15.40

    Any idea how to get this to be just 15.40?

    Thanks!
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      You copied the regex incorrectly.

      perl -e '$n = "Price 15.40"; $n =~s/[^\d.]//g; print "$n\n";'

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      15.40

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        Oh, sorry. Now its working. Could you please explain what the expression ^\d. means? Would be nice to understand how it works.

        What if I want this to work also for ","? In order words I would like it to extract all digits, "." AND ",". Is that possible?

        Thanks!
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