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Fellow Monks,

I've tried super search on this and came up empty.

I'm trying to do a match of data that is non-consecutive as the code below shows. This is to figure out the UPS zone for shipping. I realize that Business::UPS does this but I'd rather hard code the zones as opposed to doing the LWP lookup each time as the module does.

use strict;

# Zone 8 
my $z8 = "10-374,376-379,382-385,388-499,530-534,541-543,618,619,700-7
+04,707-709";

my $num = "34";
print "Found it!\n" if $num =~/[$z8]/;
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When run, the above code gives me an error:

Invalid [] range "6-3" in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/[10-374,376-3
+ <-- HERE 79,382-385,388-499,530-534,541-543,618,619,700-704,707-709]
+/
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but I'm not sure how to match it against the range I've specified.

I understand that it's seeing the 6-3 and thinking that it's already tried to match against 10-374, so how can I get the regex to match against the entire range?

Useless trivia: In the 2004 Las Vegas phone book there are approximately 28 pages of ads for massage, but almost 200 for lawyers.

In reply to Matching data against non-consecutive range by Popcorn Dave

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