Re: How to get the Class name of an element

[Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis gmx de>]

* Pelle Nilsson <pellenilsson fastmail fm> [2010-04-16 13:00]:
> If an object is used in a string context it will return
> something like
>
> Gtk2::Entry=HASH(0x12cfba8)
>
> so you can use something like
>
> if (substr($text, 0, 11) eq 'Gtk2::Entry') {
>     print "Entry!\n";
> } elsif (substr($text, 0, 14) eq 'Gtk2::ComboBox') {
>     print "ComboBox!\n";
> }

Wow, this is worthy of DailyWTF. I hope you have never actually
used this technique in any code.

Regards,
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