How do I tell if a variable has a numeric value in Perl?

Question

Is there a simple way in Perl that will allow me to determine if a given variable is numeric? Something along the lines of:

if (is_number($x))
{ ... }
         


        

Answer 1

I found this interesting though

if ( $value + 0 eq $value) {
    # A number
    push @args, $value;
} else {
    # A string
    push @args, "'$value'";
}