>This should do the trick...
>$List =~ /^(?:([\d|\.]+)\*)?(\w+)\/(?:([\d|\.]+)\*)?(\w+)$/;
Note that this will also pass '12|34.56' as a valid number because
of the '|' in the '[...]'. I think you will really want just '[\d\.]'.
---Larry
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