(jeffa) Re: 1 vs "1"

UPDATE: Oct, 11 2001
Ok, now i know why davorg was getting on to me about my original post - first off, i misunderstood the question, secondly, my regex was quite pitiful.

davorg was on to me because ...

he knew that i own his book
his book has a better regex

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Re: (jeffa) Re: 1 vs "1" by davorg (Chancellor) on Sep 12, 2001 at 19:11 UTC
Unless I misunderstood the original question, this doesn't answer it. I read it to mean that if you had two scalars like this: `my $number = 1; my $string = "1";` [download] how would you tell which is a string and which is a number. I don't think your solution addresses this. Oh, and your regex to check for floating point numbers could use some work too :) -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> Perl Training in the UK <http://www.iterative-software.com>	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: (jeffa) Re: 1 vs "1"
by davorg (Chancellor) on Sep 12, 2001 at 19:11 UTC

Unless I misunderstood the original question, this doesn't answer it. I read it to mean that if you had two scalars like this:

my $number = 1;
my $string = "1";
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how would you tell which is a string and which is a number. I don't think your solution addresses this.

Oh, and your regex to check for floating point numbers could use some work too :)

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Perl Training in the UK <http://www.iterative-software.com>

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