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in reply to Behaving appropriately based on ref() result

use a Hash
my %RefTypes = ( 'Regexp' => \&HandleRegexp, 'CODE' => \&HandleCodeRef, 'ARRAY' => \&HandleArrayRef, 'HASH' => \&HandleHashRef, 'SCALAR' => \&HandleScalarRef, '' => \&HandleScalar, ); my $ref = ref($_); if(exists $RefTypes{$ref}) { $RefTypes{$ref}->($_); } else { warn "Unknown ref() wth is a $ref ?!"; }
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