When catching an exception, the catch may be either the exception identified in the 'caught' method or a subclass. I would like to have a dynamic mechanism to get the actual class name for the exception object (e.g. "MyException::File::Open" subclass or "MyException::File"?). This would be useful in building diagnostic info to log or present to developer.

Suggestions for how to do this? Hopefully without hardcoding?

There are a several class and object methods described in the doc for Exception::Class. Available object method I missed?

Thanks for your quick response! After reading your suggestion to use 'ref' function, I thought "so obvious". I was doing too much exception thinking and did not see the simple answer.