Shawn wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 04:35:11PM -0500, Maurice Reeves wrote:
> > > not quite. \w matches _ also, and he didn't have
> > > that in his list.
> > >
> > > how about
> > > $searchstring =~ /^[a-z0-9]+/i;
> >
> > I'm not sure why you're both anchoring the pattern. He didn't specify it
> > had to start with a letter or number, he said it needs to be in the
> string.
> >
> > $searchstring =~ /[a-z0-9]/i;
>
> Why slow it down with the 'i'?
> $searchstring=~/[a-zA-Z0-9]/;
Why slow it down with a regular expression? :-)
if ( $searchstring =~ tr/a-zA-Z0-9/ ) {
John
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