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NoamT has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: (references)

I have a string which is the stringification of an object reference, e.g.

"MYOBJECT(0x3a89fc)"
How can I recover from this an actual reference, so that (e.g.) I'll be able to call the object's methods?

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