[Chicago-talk] detecting whether a scalar is number or a string.

[Richard Reina]

Tnank you very much Steve.

Nice solution.
---- Chicago.pm chatter <chicago-talk at pm.org> wrote:
>
> 
> > my $string = "anssds";
> >  
> > and 
> > 
> > $string = "5879873454";
> 
>        use Scalar::Util qw( looks_like_number );
> 
>        if( looks_like_number $scalar )
>        {
>              # perl will do math on it.
>        }
>        else
>        {
>              # perl will not do math on it.
>        }
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