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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Is this grep command correct? Post 302287711 by mgessner on Sunday 15th of February 2009 09:16:29 AM
Old 02-15-2009
Why not just test it?

Test it against:

5.0
+5.0
-5.0
Hello - world
Joe + Mary

See if it gets you want you want (it won't, yet, if all you're looking for is NUMBERS...)
 

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Test::Requires(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					 Test::Requires(3)

NAME
Test::Requires - Checks to see if the module can be loaded SYNOPSIS
# in your Makefile.PL use inc::Module::Install; test_requires 'Test::Requires'; # in your test use Test::More tests => 10; use Test::Requires { 'HTTP::MobileAttribute' => 0.01, # skip all if HTTP::MobileAttribute doesn't installed }; isa_ok HTTP::MobileAttribute->new, 'HTTP::MobileAttribute::NonMobile'; # or use Test::More tests => 10; use Test::Requires qw( HTTP::MobileAttribute ); isa_ok HTTP::MobileAttribute->new, 'HTTP::MobileAttribute::NonMobile'; # or use Test::More tests => 10; use Test::Requires; test_requires 'Some::Optional::Test::Required::Modules'; isa_ok HTTP::MobileAttribute->new, 'HTTP::MobileAttribute::NonMobile'; DESCRIPTION
Test::Requires checks to see if the module can be loaded. If this fails rather than failing tests this skips all tests. AUTHOR
Tokuhiro Matsuno <tokuhirom @*(#RJKLFHFSDLJF gmail.com> THANKS TO
kazuho++ # some tricky stuff miyagawa++ # original code from t/TestPlagger.pm tomyhero++ # reported issue related older test::builder SEE ALSO
"TestPlagger.pm" in t LICENSE
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.16.2 2010-09-26 Test::Requires(3)
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