Re^3: Complex hash?

ref returns the following values:

And it those that you must test for - depending on what you are looking for.

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Re^4: Complex hash? by GrandFather (Saint) on Aug 25, 2006 at 04:13 UTC
Just to disambiguate a little: `ref` returns SCALAR for a reference to a scalar. For a simple scalar it returns undef. Note too that `ref` returns the object type for an object so the range of strings that can be returned is essentially unlimited. DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply] [d/l] [select]