in reply to Subverting overload

Yes. Call overload::StrVal(). From the POD:

Package overload.pm provides the following public functions:

overload::StrVal(arg)

Gives string value of arg as in absence of stringify overloading

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Re^2: Subverting overload
by Duco (Sexton) on Nov 29, 2004 at 05:49 UTC
    Thanks! I did perldoc overload, but I must have missed that.
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