Dear monks,

I have the following code: 
my $result = my_function();
if ( ref $result eq 'SCALAR' ) {
 # Handle scalar return value
} elsif ( ref $result eq 'ARRAY' ) {
 # Handle Array return value
}

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Which works quite well till I have my_function return not a scalar or an array but a reference to one of these two options. At that point ref $result will always tell me I am looking at an reference which is of course correct but not very handy for me to handle the output in different ways. So my question is how to detect what my reference is refering to is it a scalar or an array?

In reply to How to detect a returns value gracefully by RatKing

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