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in reply to Distiguishing arguments: number-strings vs real integer

You can use the B module to get the internal flags.
See my comparison which I did at the Perl Toolchain Summit. It includes several examples where it's not clear if a variable is a number or a string:
https://perlpunk.github.io/perl5-numbers-and-json-yaml/
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Re^2: Distiguishing arguments: number-strings vs real integer
by LanX (Saint) on Aug 10, 2018 at 15:28 UTC
    Great!

    Thanks Tina! :)

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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