Need help with regular expression

[shanby]

if ( $report_id = ~ /^\d+$/ )

can anyone tell me what "~ /^\d+$/ " expects and returns true.
Thanks in advance

[Rykus]

if ( $report_id = ~ /^\d+$/ )

can anyone tell me what "~ /^\d+$/ " expects and returns true.
Thanks in advance

If $report_id contains one or more digits (\d+) from beginning(^) to end ($)

This will report true if your $report_id is only numerical values from beginning to end (numerical values being 0 through 9)

Fals if it is anything else (ie there is any whitespace, alpha, or special characters)

So 3207283469028 is valid, but 280720a2037 is not

Hope that helps