The regular expression can be explained, e.g.:
perl -MYAPE::Regex::Explain -wle ' my $re = qr/^[+-]?\d+$/;
print YAPE::Regex::Explain->new($re)->explain();'
The regular expression:
(?-imsx:^[+-]?\d+$)
matches as follows:
NODE EXPLANATION
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(?-imsx: group, but do not capture (case-sensitive)
(with ^ and $ matching normally) (with . not
matching \n) (matching whitespace and #
normally):
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^ the beginning of the string
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[+-]? any character of: '+', '-' (optional
(matching the most amount possible))
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\d+ digits (0-9) (1 or more times (matching
the most amount possible))
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$ before an optional \n, and the end of the
string
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) end of grouping
----------------------------------------------------------------------
So, all in all the code checks if the content of $nth contains an integer with or without a prefix ( + or -); if it does not, then the removed code is executed.
Documentation:
perlretut
perlre
edit: hints about s/PERL/Perl/ and code tags removed, as choroba already mentioned it
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