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Re: Re: Determining the true type of a reference
by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on May 24, 2003 at 17:17 UTC

    +=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";

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    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.

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