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in reply to Looking for a function that returns status of a scalar's numeric flags

I have a test for this exact thing in Sub::Quote. It uses the B module to check the flags. Rather than having individual functions for each flag, or generating a data structure, my test just generates a string of what flags are set, since that was simplest and gave the nicest debugging results.

From quotify.t:

my %flags; { no strict 'refs'; for my $flag (qw( SVs_TEMP SVs_OBJECT SVs_GMG SVs_SMG SVs_RMG SVf_IOK SVf_NOK SVf_POK SVf_OOK SVf_FAKE SVf_READONLY SVf_PROTECT SVf_BREAK SVp_IOK SVp_NOK SVp_POK )) { if (defined &{'B::'.$flag}) { $flags{$flag} = &{'B::'.$flag}; } } } sub flags { my $flags = B::svref_2object(\($_[0]))->FLAGS; join ' ', sort grep $flags & $flags{$_}, keys %flags; }
then later:
is flags($copy), flags($value), "$value_name: quotify doesn't modify input";