Regex to match odd numbers

[Dirk Koopman]

On 27/05/14 16:22, David Cantrell wrote:
> As part of the nasty mess that is CPANdeps, I have this line of code:
>
> $record->{is_dev_perl} = (
>    $record->{perl} =~ /(^5\.(7|9|11|13|15|17|19|21)|rc|patch)/i
> ) ? 1 : 0;
>
> I'd like to not have to remember to add 23 to the list in a year or so's
> time. Can anyone think of a nice way of matching any odd number from 7
> upwards?  Obviously it's easy to do in a coupla lines of perl code
> instead of a regex, so I'm asking more out of curiosity than because I
> actually need it.
>

$bool = ($record->{perl} > 7) & 1;     # for example?