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use strict;
our $VERSION = '1.302210';
use Scalar::Util qw/reftype blessed refaddr/;
our @EXPORT_OK = qw/rtype render_ref/;
use base 'Exporter';
sub rtype {
my ($thing) = @_;
return '' unless defined $thing;
my $rf = ref $thing;
my $rt = reftype $thing;
return '' unless $rf || $rt;
return 'REGEXP' if $rf =~ m/Regex/i;
return 'REGEXP' if $rt =~ m/Regex/i;
return $rt || '';
}
sub render_ref {
my ($in) = @_;
return 'undef' unless defined($in);
my $type = rtype($in);
return "$in" unless $type;
# Look past overloading
my $class = blessed($in) || '';
my $it = sprintf('0x%x', refaddr($in));
my $ref = "$type($it)";
return $ref unless $class;
my $out = "$class=$ref";
if ($class =~ m/bool/i) {
my $bool = $in ? 'TRUE' : 'FALSE';
return "<$bool: $out>";
}
return $out;
}
1;
__END__
=pod
=encoding UTF-8
=head1 NAME
Test2::Util::Ref - Tools for inspecting or manipulating references.
=head1 DESCRIPTION
These are used by L<Test2::Tools> to inspect, render, or manipulate references.
=head1 EXPORTS
All exports are optional. You must specify subs to import.
=over 4
=item $type = rtype($ref)
A normalization between C<Scalar::Util::reftype()> and C<ref()>.
Always returns a string.
Returns C<'REGEXP'> for regex types
Returns C<''> for non-refs
Otherwise returns what C<Scalar::Util::reftype()> returns.
=item $addr_str = render_ref($ref)
Always returns a string. For unblessed references this returns something like
C<"SCALAR(0x...)">. For blessed references it returns
C<"My::Thing=SCALAR(0x...)">. The only difference between this and C<$add_str =
"$thing"> is that it ignores any overloading to ensure it is always the ref
address.
=back
=head1 SOURCE
The source code repository for Test2-Suite can be found at
=head1 MAINTAINERS
=over 4
=item Chad Granum E<lt>exodist@cpan.orgE<gt>
=back
=head1 AUTHORS
=over 4
=item Chad Granum E<lt>exodist@cpan.orgE<gt>
=item Kent Fredric E<lt>kentnl@cpan.orgE<gt>
=back
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright Chad Granum E<lt>exodist@cpan.orgE<gt>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
=cut