Catman...x::int(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

Catmandu::Fix::int — bestie, this one converts a value to an integer. That's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

This page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and its full manual-page name is Catman...x::int(3pm) in case you were wondering where you even are 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

okay so watch her work, she's so clean:

# year => "2016"
int(year)
# year => 2016

# foo => "bar-123baz"
int(foo)
# foo => -123

# foo => ""
int(foo)
# foo => 0

# foo => "abc"
int(foo)
# foo => 0

# foo => []
int(foo)
# foo => 0

# foo => ["a", "b", "c"]
int(foo)
# foo => 3

# foo => {a => "b", c => "d"}
int(foo)
# foo => 2

like. look at that. a string that's just a number becomes the number ("2016" → 2016) ✨, a messy string with digits hiding inside gets dragged into being one ("bar-123baz" → -123) 💀, an empty string goes to 0, pure nonsense text goes to 0, an empty array goes to 0, and a non-empty array or a hash just tells you how many things are in it (["a", "b", "c"] → 3, {a => "b", c => "d"} → 2). she's giving "I contain multitudes but also I am one integer" energy 👑

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Catmandu::Fix — the whole fix fam, go say hi 💖

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and that's the whole page, bestie, no cap 🍓

this was brought to you by perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-01-24 — the very same Catman...x::int(3pm) you just read, slaying since forever 🌸

mwah 💋 go fix something iconic ✨