I should mention there is a variety of different uses for this as well.

The most common are: 

sub foo {
    my $self = shift;

    # Is there a variable at all ( even undef )
    my $anything = @_ ? shift : return undef;

    # Is there a defined argument
    my $def = defined $_[0] ? shift : return undef;

    # Is there a true argument
    my $true = $_[0] ? shift : return undef;

    # Is there an argument which conforms to a regex?
    my $re_ok = $_[0] =~ /^\w+$/ ? shift : return undef;

    # If the argument one of a limited number of values
    my $option = $_[0] =~ /^(?:this|that|foo|bar)$/ ? shift : return u
+ndef;

    # Is it a reference
    my $ref = ref $_[0] ? shift : return undef;

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You get my point... it can be extended to cover most of the basics pretty well, and it probably much faster than calling to another subroutine.

In reply to Re: Re: validating function input by adamk
in thread validating function input by bobdeath

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