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You can get it from ref() or get it more directly/accurately from Scalar::Util::blessed(). (ref, e.g., will return 'ARRAY' for an unblessed array reference or 'HASH' for an unblessed hash reference, while blessed will only return results for blessed references).

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Re^2: Retrieving classname from an object
by Hue-Bond (Priest) on Jul 10, 2006 at 23:57 UTC
    ref, e.g., will return 'ARRAY' for an unblessed array reference

    Which is amusing:

    {
  package ARRAY;
  sub new { return bless \shift; }
}
print join ' ',
  ref \@{[]},
  ref ARRAY->new ("something"),
  "\n";
__END__
ARRAY ARRAY

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    --
    David Serrano

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Re^2: Retrieving classname from an object
by monkeyhelper (Initiate) on Jul 10, 2006 at 23:28 UTC
    I had a look at ref and it didn't seem to provide this info - Do you have an example (out of curiosity) ? I'll use Scalar::Util for now. Thanks for the help.
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      my $class = ref $object;
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        Ah yes - to quote from Programming Perl : "If the referenced object has been blessed into a package, then that package name is returned instead."
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        hehe
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