Re: Determining the true type of a reference

[little]

in reply to Determining the true type of a reference

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[Mr. Muskrat]

+=0 (you meant well)

That won't work little. Try changing this line in showarray: print ref($aref), ": @$aref"; to

print ref($aref);
print "@$aref";

and you will see that it outputs 'ARRAY' which is wrong. In this case, $aref is a SCALAR reference that is blessed into the class ARRAY.

[little]

that won't work due to your own belssing I assume
my $blessed = bless($ref, 'ARRAY'); # bless the scalar reference into class ARRAY

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[Mr. Muskrat]

Right. Reread my OP to see why I did that.