Test2::Util::Ref(3)	Perl Programmers Reference Guide     Test2::Util::Ref(3)

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

DESCRIPTION
     These are used by Test2::Tools to inspect, render, or manipulate refer-
     ences.

EXPORTS
     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 some-
	 thing 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.

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

MAINTAINERS
     Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

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

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>.

     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it un-
     der the same terms as Perl itself.

     See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/

perl v5.44.0			   2026-06-22		     Test2::Util::Ref(3)