Perl - how to access dot within regex?

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Published on 2010-04-15T11:44:36Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 11:53 UTC
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Hi,

I use this codition to check if the value is alphanumeric values:

$value =~ /^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$/

How can I modify this regex to account for a possible dot "." in the value without accepting any other special characters?

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