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

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

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 v5.40.1 2025-07-03 Test2::Util::Ref(3perl)

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

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.

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

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

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