Re^2: Problem when comparing strings as opposed to numerical values

Yes. Later on, I am going to add regexes to check the values.

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Re^3: Problem when comparing strings as opposed to numerical values by moritz (Cardinal) on Jul 19, 2012 at 19:33 UTC
You don't need eval for that. `my $re = qr{^(\d+):}; my $data = '123: 45'; if ($data =~ $re) { print "Matched!"; }` [download] Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed	[reply] [d/l]