Re: [FWP] Could be fun(ny|nier)?

[Bill Jones <bill@fccj.org>]

> Um, no it doesn't...  That regex only matches a single period.

#  It must only match the first one then; because:

$_ = 3.14.15;

print "$_  ", (/^ *[+-]?(?:\d+\.?\d*|\.\d+)(?:[eE][+-]?\d+)? *$/) ?
print " Matched " : " no Match ";

# Output:   Matched 3.1415  1

__END__
Weird...  But, if I qw/$_/; then I get 'no Match'...

I'll study more!
-Sneex- :]
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