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  | Test2::Util::Ref(3) | User Contributed Perl Documentation | Test2::Util::Ref(3) | 
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/test-more/.
MAINTAINERS¶
AUTHORS¶
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright 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.
| 2025-07-28 | perl v5.42.0 |