Andrew Gaffney wrote:
How do you determine what type of data a reference points to? I have a function (one in previous post) that can take either an array of scalars or an array of hash references. I want to execute different code based on which one it was. How can I do that?
perldoc -f ref
sub dohicky { for(@_) { if(ref($_) eq 'ARRAY') { # process as an array ref } elsif(ref($_) eq 'HASH') { # process as a hash ref } else { # process non HASH/ARRAY REF } } }
HTH
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