Another good module for helping you understand what a complicated regex MEANS (which will help you know how to fix it) is YAPE::Regex::Explain. It also helps with some issues where a regex may be working, but not for the reason you think.
-----Original Message----- From: Jerry Preston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 7/12/2004 6:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Gunnar Hjalmarsson' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Regex for numbers and text Jeff, What needs to be changed in /(-?\d+\.?\d*)/ so that it also see number like .59?