Mat Harris [MH], on Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 12:19 (+0000)
contributed this to our collective wisdom:
>> Is there any special function for that job?
MH> personally I would use a rexex:
MH> if ($myunknownvalue =~ m/^\d*$/)
personally I would change this regex to:
if ($myunknownvalue =~ m/^\d+$/)
because regex given matches also empty set ('')
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