in reply to Stupid regex question - numerics

Hi.. your negating the matched patten that is the problem. see the Example.
my $long =-4.332423424; my $lat = 0; if ( ($long > 180 || $long < -180) || ($lat > 90 || $lat < -90) || $long =~ /^([\d\-\.]+)$/ || $lat =~ /^([\d\-\.]+)$/ ) { print "welcome\n"; }

Now it matched the condition correctly.