On Feb 22, Daniel Falkenberg said:
>The code below of coarse will count all characters in the string $string
>
>$string = "4556jhkl";
>
>$count = $string =~ tr/a-zA-Z0-9//;
>
>How would I go about only allowing numbers and letters of the alpahbet?
You could say:
if ($string =~ tr/a-zA-Z0-9//c) {
print "bad character found";
}
The /c modifier means "invert the set", so that tr/aeiou//c scans for
characters that are NOT a, e, i, o, or u.
If a regex is want you want to use, I'd suggest:
if ($string =~ /[^a-zA-Z0-9]/) {
# bad character found
}
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