> -----Original Message-----
> From: bob ackerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>
>
> On Friday, May 17, 2002, at 09:40 AM, Batchelor, Scott wrote:
>
> > /([^a-zA-Z])\1/
>
> did you mean to be checking for repeating non-alpha characters?
> if you are testing with repeating alpha characters, that test
> won't catch
> it.
>
This is probably a bit more what you would be looking for if that was the
case.
if ( $p =~ /([:alpha])\1/) {
}
H
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