Below is a question I'm trying to answer, but it's not making much sense. Particulary where it says "What variable type in Perl could you use, that would identify repeated jump destinations."??

Any insights would be appreciated.

QUESTION AS FOLLOWS

If you have ever used an Internet browser you may have come across links that don't go anywhere (broken links) which are extremely annoying.
Part of the challenge of making programs that put in hypertext links is ensuring the link the program puts in always has an associated destination or anchor. An associated problem is ensuring that jump destinations or anchors are unique. i.e. jump destinations are never repeated.

What variable type in Perl could you use, that would identify repeated jump destinations.

Write a subroutine that uses the above data type (you can assume the data type is a global variable), takes as input a jump destination and prints to STDOUT a warning message if it has already received the input jump destination. Below is a skeleton subroutine you should base your answer on:

sub CheckJumpDestination { my($jump_destination) = @_; if ( ) { } else { } }

In reply to Test Question - Does it make sense? by Groins

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