I am a novice and try to use structs. However, I seem unable to find out how to allocate one. Having spent several hours reading the perl documentation, the Class::Struct documentation and searching the webs, I fearfully decided to approach the sacred halls of Perl Monastery.

Could a fellow monk please help a novice find out how what is wrong with the following script?

use strict;
use warnings;
use Class::Struct;              # include <structs>

struct( document => {
    fileID  => '$',             # $ = scalar = int
    filename => '@',            # @ = array (of char) = string
    tags => '@'                 # tags - array of strings
});

# all of these three attempts to allocate memory fail:
#my $doc = document->new( );     # produces: Can't locate object metho
+d "fileID" via package "doc" (perhaps you forgot to load "doc"?) at t
+estsnippet01.pl line 18.
#my $doc = new( 'document');     # produces: Undefined subroutine &mai
+n::new called at testsnippet01.pl line 12.
#my $doc = new( document);       # produces: Bareword "document" not a
+llowed while "strict subs" in use at testsnippet01.pl line 13.

my $doc = <WhatGoesHere?>        # Hopefully a Perl saint knows what g
+oes here...

doc->fileID( 123 );
doc->filename( 'SampleFileName' );
doc->tags( 'tag1', 'tag2', 'tag3'  );

print "File ID:  ", doc->fileID, "\n";
print "Filename: ", doc->filename, "\n";
print "Tags:     ", doc->tags, "\n";

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I already looked into the alternative using associative arrays, but it would be much cleaner and effective to use structs like in C for my purposes...

So, any idea what the correct spell to allocate a struct could be?

In reply to How to allocate a struct? by dissident

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