On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 08:28:55 -0500, Bob Showalter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Is there any special function for that job?
> 
> See the FAQ article:
> 
>    perldoc -q 'is a number'
> 
> 
> 

That all depends on what you mean by a number...the FAQ interestingly
ignores hex values.  0xabcdef is a perfectly valid numeric value.

--jay savage

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