Re^2: Question re numbers and strings

Hi,

Thanks for the reply guys - thats sheds some light on the matter :)

I think what I will do, is just use a regex for now then:

$var =~ /^[1-9]\d*$/

(the first bit is just to make sure its over 0 :))

Thanks again

Andy

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Re^3: Question re numbers and strings by ww (Archbishop) on Jan 13, 2011 at 13:14 UTC
Just a tangential word of caution, Andy; quoting (determining interpolation) matters: `C:>perl -e "my $var = '0x8';if ($var =~ /^[1-9]\d$/) {print 'num' } e +lse {print 'not a num';}" not a num` [download] But `C:>perl -e "my $var = 0x8;if ($var =~ /^[1-9]\d$/) {print 'num' } els +e {print 'not a num';}" num` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]