Test2:...ls::Ref(3perl) Perl Programmers Reference GuideTest2:...ls::Ref(3perl)
NAME
Test2::Tools::Ref - Tools for validating references.
DESCRIPTION
This module contains tools that allow you to verify that something is a
ref. It also has tools to check if two refs are the same exact ref, or
different. None of the functions in this module do deep comparisons.
SYNOPSIS
use Test2::Tools::Ref;
# Ensure something is a ref.
ref_ok($ref);
# Check that $ref is a HASH reference
ref_ok($ref, 'HASH', 'Must be a hash')
ref_is($refa, $refb, "Same exact reference");
ref_is_not($refa, $refb, "Not the same exact reference");
EXPORTS
All subs are exported by default.
ref_ok($thing)
ref_ok($thing, $type)
ref_ok($thing, $type, $name)
This checks that $thing is a reference. If $type is specified then
it will check that $thing is that type of reference.
ref_is($ref1, $ref2, $name)
Verify that two references are the exact same reference.
ref_is_not($ref1, $ref2, $name)
Verify that two references are not the exact same reference.
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>
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/
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