Correct!

That is, provided that the passed-in-array does not itself contain references. For the purpose of this exercise, you may know that it won’t, but in the general case, it might, which is why a solution using wantarray may be preferable here, as explained above.

Note that “empty” here means the empty string, i.e. "", so to make the test more robust you could write:

my $type_of_arg = ref $_[0];

if ($type_of_arg eq "ARRAY")
{
    # Handle an array reference
}
elsif ($type_of_arg eq "")
{
    # Handle an array
}
else
{
    die "Unexpected reference type '$type_of_arg': $!";
}

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Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re^8: How to combine these 2 subroutines in one? by Athanasius
in thread How to combine these 2 subroutines in one? by Anonymous Monk

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