Mat Harris [MH], on Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 12:19 (+0000)
contributed this to our collective wisdom:

>> Is there any special function for that job?

MH> personally I would use a rexex:
MH> if ($myunknownvalue =~ m/^\d*$/)

personally I would change this regex to:
if ($myunknownvalue =~ m/^\d+$/)
because regex given matches also empty set ('')

-- 

 ...m8s, cu l8r, Brano.

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