perl有引用的概念:一组数据实际上是另一组数据的引用。这些引用称为指针,第一组数据中存放的是第二组数据的头地址。引用的方式被用得相当普遍,特别是在面向对象的模块、函数的参数传递等常见。但perl对每个引用都是以一个普通的变量来定义的,有时候,如果数据的架构比较复杂,我们可能会困惑于某个变量所指向的地址的实际内容是什么?perl的ref函数就可以帮助我们。
一、说明
从perl自带的帮助说明可以了解相关的用法:
ref EXPR
ref Returns a non-empty string if EXPR is a reference, the empty
string otherwise. If EXPR is not specified, $_ will be used. The
value returned depends on the type of thing the reference is a
reference to. Builtin types include:
SCALAR
ARRAY
HASH
CODE
REF
GLOB
LVALUE
If the referenced object has been blessed into a package, then
that package name is returned instead. You can think of "ref" as
a "typeof" operator.
if (ref($r) eq "HASH") {
print "r is a reference to a hash./n";
}
unless (ref($r)) {
print "r is not a reference at all./n";
}
See also perlref.
二、举例
简单来说,就是如果一个变量是个引用,那ref就可以返回一个表示其实际引用对象的描述性字符串,否则就会返回空值。如果没有指定ref函数的参数,默认对$_变量操作。如果被引用的对象已经被打包,则会返回该包的名称,类似typeof操作符。
代码:
%hash=('Tom'=>'Male','Jerry'=>'Female');
$href=/%hash;
for $key (keys %$href) {
print $key." is ".$href->{$key};
print "/n";
}
if ( ref($href) eq "HASH" ) {
print "href is a reference to a hash./n";
}
unless ( ref($href) ) {
print "href is not a reference at all./n";
}
print "href is ",ref($href),"./n";
输出结果:
Jerry is Female
Tom is Male
href is a reference to a hash.
href is HASH