Test2::Util::Ref(3perl) Perl Programmers Reference GuideTest2::Util::Ref(3perl)
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/
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