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From: sondeen@isi.edu (Jeff Sondeen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Differentiating strings and numbers in an array?
Message-ID: <16574@venera.isi.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 91 04:33:23 GMT
Reply-To: sondeen@venera.isi.edu (Jeff Sondeen)
Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California
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I want to add an offset to the numbers in an array that contains both
numbers and strings, like (0,"b",1) -> (3,"b",4), but I can't differentiate
the numeric 0's from the strings that have numeric value 0.  Can it be done
or should I try some other limb?  Thanks, /jeff
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/jeff	sondeen@isi.edu				"engineers were discouraged
		from bringing problems to the attention of their supervisors"
	-- John Magnus, final report, Hubble Space Telescope investigation