Similar to ref, but only returns the name if the item is a blessed class. In fact there are two subs, one for when you consider qr// constructs to be blessed/objects and one for when you don't. The reason the latter is provided is because a qr// is not really a user defined class type. For some uses this may be a required distinction (I have needed both at times).

Update: For most uses you are probably better off stealing GBARR's solution as posted by jmcnamara in a reply to this node. Thanks jmcnamara and gbarr. :-)

use overload; # required for either

# qr// constructs are NOT considered blessed objects.
sub blessed($) {

   (ref($_[0]) && (index(overload::StrVal($_[0]),'=')>=0) 
    && overload::StrVal($_[0])!~/^Regexp=SCALAR/) 
      ? ref($_[0]) : ""
} 

# qr// constructs ARE considered blessed objects
sub blessed($) {
   (ref($_[0]) && (index(overload::StrVal($_[0]),'=')>=0)) 
      ? ref($_[0]) : ""
}

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