Name
ref
Synopsis
ref $var
Description
Returns a string indicating the type of the object referenced if var is a reference; returns the null string otherwise. Built-in types include:
REF SCALAR ARRAY HASH CODE GLOB
If the referenced object has been blessed into a package, that package name
is returned instead. You can think of ref
as a “typeof” operator.
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