>>>>> "K" == K Prabakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
K> Try this ----> $_ =~ /^\w\w*-?\w+?[\.\w\w*-?\w+?]*$/ "Try" is usually a good clue to mean "This is not your solution". In this case, you've got all sorts of stuff going on in a character class. Wrong stuff. "Try" again. Please. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>