On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Andre van der Lingen wrote:

> I would do it like this:
>
> if ($var / 1) {
>       print ("var: $var is: integer\n");
> } else        {
>       print ("var: $var is: string\n");
> }
>
> if $var is a string than the outcome = "0" so the if statement will
> print that $var is a string.
>

Try your code when ($var = 0). I think you may be suprised to discover
that the number 0 is a string rather than an integer.

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