Test2::Util::Ref(3perl)                       Perl Programmers Reference Guide


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/

perl v5.40.0                      2024-09-01           Test2::Util::Ref(3perl)