Mathew Snyder wrote:
It looks like an object is what I want. Am I correct? Suppose I need to work with a bit of data that actually has 11 attributes. This would be an object of another type. However, I need to manipulate pieces of it differently. So I'm guessing I would create an object thusly:sub objectname { my %hashOfAttribs { attrib1 => undef, attrib2 => undef, attrib3 => undef } } I would then create an instance of that object my $instance = new objectname(); I'm not certain though, how to populate the elements. would it actually be my $instance = new objectname(attrib1 => value, attrib2 => value, attrib3 => value)? Or would I create the instance as above and then populate it by some other means? For instance $instance->hashOfAttribs { attrib1 => value, attrib2 => value, attrib3 => value }; Am I at least on the right track?
Well, sort of. Objects are simply intelligent data structures - structures with code as well as data that know how to perform operations on themselves. So you still have to decide on your basic data structure first, and we still need to know more about what the data is that you're trying to represent before we can help! What you've written above is pretty much correct expect that Perl classes (types of objects) are packages not subroutines. But first lets be sure you really need to create objects. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
