[Israel.pm] how to get the data type of blessed object

[Gaal Yahas]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 08:46:38PM +0300, Itamar Elem wrote:
> > >how can i get the datatype(ARRAY,HASH,....) of blessed object

[Gabor]
> >print ref $x;

[Itamar]
> use attributes;
> 
> print attributes::reftype $x;

[Gaal]
Since attributes.pm is "still evolving", if you want this kind of
approach you'd better use Scalar::Util::reftype instead.

Mikhael suggests stringifying the reference, but as he himself notes
this is not robust against ""-overloading.

I usually use the ref builtin.

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