Hello Monks!

I'm new to OO in Perl. I have a class that I have created. In this class, I need an attribute that is a hash whose members contain an array.

I have gotten the hash to work, but making the contents of the hash an array is a mystery to me.

I'm wondering if I need another class that this class will have as an attribute? 

sub new {
   my $class = shift;
   my $self = {
                  coreID => 0,
                  isBpMaskError => 0,
                  isVrrpErrors => 0,
                  isSymPriorityErrors => 0,
                  isSslProfileErrors => 0,
                  isGlobalPortErrors => 0,
                  isVipsinVipGroupsErrors => 0,
                  isVipGroupErrors => 0,
                  isSnatIpErrors => 0,
                  isCodeVersionErrors => 0,
                  aclsMissingFromMaster => {},
   };
   
   bless $self, $class;
   return $self;
}

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I want the aclsMissingFromMaster hash to contain an array. Should I just make a class ACLS with attributes being arrays and make that class object an attribute of this class? Or is there a way to make the above class contain a hash containing arrays.

eg: I am trying to make the following hash an attribute of the above class.

%hash1{'list1'}-> [1,2,3,4]
%hash1{'list2'}-> [4,5,6,7]
...

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Thanks for your wisdom!

In reply to OO Design Question with Hashes of Arrays by ahackney

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