>Is there a way to determine the type of a reference at runtime ?
Sure is. Use the 'ref' function.
e.g.
if (ref($pointer) eq "HASH")
{
...
}
See http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/pod/func/ref.html for more detail.
MK.
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Lenny
Sent: Friday, 29 August 2003 8:46 AM
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Subject: Auto Detect Reference Type ?
Greetings,
Is there a way to determine the type of a reference at runtime ? If for
example a subroutine returns a Reference to a variable which could be a
Hash, Array or Scalar. The program should be able to determine how to
access it...
Thanks,
-Lenny
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