On Tuesday 04 October 2005 09:01, Zielfelder, Robert wrote:
> How can I test the value of a variable to find out if it is an integer
> or a string?
Ultra simple way:
if ($myVar =~ /^\d+$/) {
 print "$myVar is a number\n";
} else {
 print "$myVar contains things that aren't numbers\n";
}

More detail at:
perldoc -q "whether a scalar is a number"

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