Hei Friends

is there any better way to find the "our" name of a package variable other than searching thru all possibilities?

And why can't I find $x? cause its an alias?

use feature qw(say);
use PadWalker qw(var_name peek_our);
use Data::Dump qw(pp);
 
sub our_name {
  my $varref=\shift;
 
  my $h_our=peek_our(1);
  while ( my ($name,$ref) = each %$h_our ) {
    return $name if $ref == $varref;
  }
  return;
}
 
package test;
our $bar=10;
 
package main;
 
for our $x (1) {
  
 
  say our_name($bar);     # > $bar
 
  say our_name($x);       # > ''
}

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Cheers Rolf

In reply to Inspecting the name of a variable by LanX

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