Since I am modifying the resultant hash drastically,

Simply looking at the variable can change its internal format, so you don't want to rely on that. 

$ perl -MDevel::Peek -le'$|=1; $x=1; Dump $x; print "x=$x"; Dump $x'
SV = IV(0x816a438) at 0x814f6cc
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (IOK,pIOK)                 <--- $x is a number
  IV = 1
x=1
SV = PVIV(0x8150b10) at 0x814f6cc
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (IOK,POK,pIOK,pPOK)        <--- $x is a number and a string
  IV = 1
  PV = 0x81651b8 "1"\0
  CUR = 1
  LEN = 4

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If you wanted to spend some effort, you could actually use the list you passed to GetOptions. If not, the following could do with very little effort: 

sub reconstruct_toggle   { ... }
sub reconstruct_with_val { ... }
sub reconstruct_opt_val  { ... }

reconstruct(
   foo => \&reconstruct_toggle,
   bar => \&reconstruct_with_val,
   special => sub { ... },
);

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In reply to Re^5: How to check if a scalar value is numeric or string? by ikegami
in thread How to check if a scalar value is numeric or string? by bgupta

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