Trying to find the index of the first number in a string using perl

Question

I'm trying to find the index of the first occurrence of a number from 0-9.

Let's say that:

 $myString = "ABDFSASF9fjdkasljfdkl1"

I want to find the position where 9 is.

I've tried this:

print index($myString,[0-9]);

And:

print index($myString,\d);

Answer 1

Use regex Positional Information:

use strict;
use warnings;

my $myString = "ABDFSASF9fjdkasljfdkl1";

if ($myString =~ /\d/) {
    print $-[0];
}

Outputs:

8