[Bioperl-l] Detecting type of an object.

[Peter van Heusden]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 hilmar.lapp@pharma.novartis.com wrote:

> 
> 
> I'm not sure why you want to test the object type in this case. Anyway, you
> can ask
> 
>    $class_name = ref($obj);
>    # branch depending on the value of class_name

->isa (after a ref() test, of course) is safer than branching on
$class_name, since it deals with inheritance (i.e. what if you're actually
getting a Bio::MySeq back, which isa Bio::Seq, from the method).

Peter
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