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Check if variable is an array in #perl

This is quite useful when parsing xml code and you don’t know if an object contains an array of tags or a single value.

eval {
	$#{$isthisanarray}
};
if ($@){
	print "Nuuu! It's not";
} else {
	print "Yes it is";
}

2 years ago

June 25, 2009
perl xml array
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