Sub::Identify(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Sub::Identify(3pm)NAMESub::Identify - Retrieve names of code references
SYNOPSIS
use Sub::Identify ':all';
my $subname = sub_name( $some_coderef );
my $packagename = stash_name( $some_coderef );
# or, to get all at once...
my $fully_qualified_name = sub_fullname( $some_coderef );
defined $subname
and say "this coderef points to sub $subname in package $packagename";
my ($file, $line) = get_code_location( $some_coderef );
$file
and say "this coderef is defined at line $line in file $file";
is_sub_constant( $some_coderef )
and say "this coderef points to a constant subroutine";
DESCRIPTION
"Sub::Identify" allows you to retrieve the real name of code
references.
It provides six functions, all of them taking a code reference.
"sub_name" returns the name of the code reference passed as an argument
(or "__ANON__" if it's an anonymous code reference), "stash_name"
returns its package, and "sub_fullname" returns the concatenation of
the two.
"get_code_info" returns a list of two elements, the package and the
subroutine name (in case of you want both and are worried by the
speed.)
In case of subroutine aliasing, those functions always return the
original name.
"get_code_location" returns a two-element list containing the file name
and the line number where the subroutine has been defined.
"is_sub_constant" returns a boolean value indicating whether the
subroutine is a constant or not.
Pure-Perl version
By default "Sub::Identify" tries to load an XS implementation of the
"get_code_info", "get_code_location" and (on perl versions 5.16.0 and
later) "is_sub_constant" functions, for speed; if that fails, or if the
environment variable "PERL_SUB_IDENTIFY_PP" is defined to a true value,
it will fall back to a pure perl implementation, that uses perl's
introspection mechanism, provided by the "B" module.
SEE ALSO
Sub::Util, part of the module distribution Scalar::List::Utils since
version 1.40. Since this will be a core module starting with perl
5.22.0, it is encouraged to migrate to Sub::Util when possible.
Sub::Name
SOURCE
A git repository for the sources is at
<https://github.com/rgs/Sub-Identify>.
LICENSE
(c) Rafael Garcia-Suarez (rgs at consttype dot org) 2005, 2008, 2012,
2014, 2015
This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.26.1 2017-11-15 Sub::Identify(3pm)
