in reply to Need a regex..
Something like this, maybe?
use strict; while (my $data = <DATA>) { chomp $data; if ($data =~ /^\d?\d?\d\.\d\d?\d?$/) { print "GOOD\n"; } else { print "BAD\n"; } } __DATA__ 12.12 123.123 0.1 1234.0 1234
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