Re: test value

John Bokma wrote:
Shane <shane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I have some nasty code, that I want to check the value of something
held in a scalar, but there is 'no' value held in there

Data::Dumper tells me the $val = []


$val contains a reference to an empty array, like:

my @array = ();
my $val = \@array;

if (@$val == 0) {
print "Empty\n";
}


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