Fellow monks,

I want to check if some reference (say $r) is blessed or not.
Is there some easy way to do it, except for cumbersome, ugly and non-general hack like this:

if (ref $r ne 'HASH' && ref $r ne 'ARRAY' && ref $r ne 'CODE' && ref $
+r ne 'SCALAR' && ref $r ne 'GLOB')

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And another question: How do I get the real type of reference, even if it is blessed. I mean, that is I have an object $o of class Foo::Bar, ref $o allways returns Foo::Bar. How do I chcek if $o is blessed reference to HASH or to ARRAY or whatever?

I have been peeking into some modules around (Data::Dumper I think) and found only this ugly code 

my ($class,$type,$addr) = (overload::StrVal($r) =~ /^(?:(.*)\=)?([^=]*
+)\(([^\(]*)\)$/);

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Is this the only way?
I have considered perl an elegant language (when used correctly) a I do not like this.

In reply to Is reference blessed? by gildir

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