Re: Regular expressions

[dragonchild]

Alternately, you can make sure that it doesn't contain characters that aren't the class.

if ( $temp2 =~ /[^a-zA-Z]/ ) {
    die "Wrong input";
}
else {
    # Do something useful
}

This is a very strong way to work. You're whitelisting and not blacklisting, which is best.

[DDH]

Thanks for the information