Test2::Util::Ref(3p) | Perl Programmers Reference Guide | Test2::Util::Ref(3p)

# NAME

Test2::Util::Ref - Tools for inspecting or manipulating references.

# DESCRIPTION

These are used by Test2::Tools to inspect, render, or manipulate references.

# EXPORTS

All exports are optional. You must specify subs to import.

$type = rtype($ref)
  A normalization between Scalar::Util::reftype() and ref().

  Always returns a string.

  Returns 'REGEXP' for regex types

  Returns '' for non-refs

  Otherwise returns what Scalar::Util::reftype() returns.

$addr_str = render_ref($ref)
  Always returns a string. For unblessed references this returns something like "SCALAR(0x...)". For blessed references it returns "My::Thing=SCALAR(0x...)". The only difference between this and $add_str = "$thing" is that it ignores any overloading to ensure it is always the ref address.

# SOURCE

The source code repository for Test2-Suite can be found at https://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Suite/.

# MAINTAINERS

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

# AUTHORS

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>
Kent Fredric <kentnl@cpan.org>

# COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2018 Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/

2025-01-28 | perl v5.40.1