Test2::Tools::Ref - Tools for validating references.

- NAME
- DESCRIPTION
- SYNOPSIS
- EXPORTS
- SOURCE
- MAINTAINERS
- AUTHORS
- COPYRIGHT

# NAME

Test2::Tools::Ref - Tools for validating references.

# DESCRIPTION

This module contains tools that allow you to verify that something is a ref. It also has tools to check if two refs are the same exact ref, or different. None of the functions in this module do deep comparisons.

# SYNOPSIS

    use Test2::Tools::Ref;

    # Ensure something is a ref.
    ref_ok($ref);

    # Check that $ref is a HASH reference
    ref_ok($ref, 'HASH', 'Must be a hash')

    ref_is($refa, $refb, "Same exact reference");

    ref_is_not($refa, $refb, "Not the same exact reference");

# EXPORTS

All subs are exported by default.

ref_ok($thing)
ref_ok($thing, $type)
ref_ok($thing, $type, $name)

  This checks that `$thing` is a reference. If `$type` is specified then it will check that `$thing` is that type of reference.

ref_is($ref1, $ref2, $name)

  Verify that two references are the exact same reference.

ref_is_not($ref1, $ref2, $name)

  Verify that two references are not the exact same reference.

# SOURCE

The source code repository for Test2-Suite can be found at https://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Suite/.

# MAINTAINERS

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

# AUTHORS

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

# COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2018 Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/

Test2::Tools::Ref - Tools for validating references.