Re: How do I retrieve the 'type' of an object

[Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 18:32, Daniel Kasak wrote:
> I'm looping through a set of objects, and I want to get the type of 
> object, ( eg GtkEntry ) and then decide what to do based on the type.
> How do I do that?
> eg:
>
> >     foreach my $field (@{$self->{fieldlist}}) {
> >             
> >         my $widget = $self->{form}->get_widget($field);
> >         
> >         # Need to figure out what type of object $widget is
> >         
> >     }

the perl ref function/operator should do the trick:

my $button = Gtk2::Button->new ('Click _Me');
print '$button's type is: '.(ref $button)."\n";

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