[TriLUG] OT - Reg Exp question.

[Scott Lambdin]

With
if ( $tmptoke !~ /^[0-9][-0-9,]*$/  ) {

the 0's get matched.  With

if ( ! $tmptoke =~ /^[0-9][-0-9,]*$/ ) {

they do not.

Thanks.

--Scott


On 11/7/07, James Olin Oden <james.oden at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/7/07, Scott Lambdin <lopaki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi -
> >
> > Can anyone tell me why /^[0-9][-0-9,]*$/  fails to match a lone 0?  It
> will
> > match a 3 or a 5, but not a zero.  I must have fallen asleep at some
> point
> > in Regular expressions class.
> >
> It works for me also.  It should match anything starting with a digit
> optionally followed by digits, dashes and commas, so the following
> should match:
>
>    0
>    10
>    01-
>    0-1
>    111,222,555-766
>
> as an example but:
>
> a0
> 01a
> 0-a
>
> would not match.
>
> What is the bigger context of your regex (i.e. what code surrounds it)?
>
> Cheers...james
> > --Scott
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