I've been fighting this for several days and it is a very simple
regular expression problem that should be easy enough for a
second grader but I can't seem to get it to work.
The string I am interested in testing for starts with 5
or 6 digits in a row and all I need to do is determine that the
first 5 or 6 characters are numbers Period. That's all.
For some reason, it has never passed the test.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings::unused;
use File::Copy;
#main local variables
my $workname = '106787pdtb';
my $regextest = '/^\d+\{5,\}/';
if ( $workname =~ $regextest ) { print "yes\n"; }
$workname contains the data I am testing. $regextest is the test
for the first 6 characters.
I was able to do this the hard way and test with 6 \d's
as in
my $regextest = '\d\d\d\d\d\d';
if ($workname =~ $regextest) {print "yes\n"; }
I got a yes that time but that's not good enough.
I'll probably kick myself when I find out what I am missing, but
I can't seem to get this to work.
Thank you.
Martin McCormick
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