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package Employee;

use strict;
use warnings;

sub new{
    my ($class, $args) = @_;
    my $self = bless {
        name=> $args->{name},
        hourlywage => $args->{hourlywage},
        hours => $args->{hours}    
    }, $class;
}

sub pay {
    my $self = shift;
    return $self->{hours} * $self->{hourlywage}; 
}


sub gist {
    my $self = shift;
    return "Employee info: name: $self->{name} hours: $self->{hours} w
+age: $self->{hourlywage}\n"    
}

1; 

package EmployeeList;

use diagnostics;
use strict;
use warnings;

sub new{
    my ($class) = @_;
    my $self = bless {
        EmployeeList => []
    }, $class;
    return $self;
}


sub add_Employee
{
    my $self = shift;
    my $Employee = shift;
    push @{ $self->{EmployeeList} }, $Employee;
}


sub gist{
    my $self = shift;
    my @gist = map { $_->gist } @{ $self->{EmployeeList} };
    return join "", @gist;
}

sub average_hourly_wage{#not even sure where to begin, don't know how 
+to initialize or access the hash at this point
    my $self = shift;
    my $wages; my $count;
    foreach my $employee ( @{ $self->{EmployeeList} })
    {
        $wages += $employee->{hourlywage}; $count++;
    }
    
    return $wages / $count;
}

sub find 
{
    my $self = shift;
    my $name = shift;
    
    foreach my $Employee ( @{ $self->{EmployeeList} } )
    {
        return $Employee if
            $Employee->{name} eq $name;
    }
}

1;

#use Employee;
#use EmployeeList;


print "Enter the name of the file to open: ";
my $input_file = <STDIN>;
chomp $input_file;

open(my $file_handle, "<", $input_file) or die "failed to open < input
+_file: $!\n";


my  $EmployeeList = new EmployeeList();


while (my $row = <$file_handle>){
    my @splitrow = split ' ', $row;
    my $Employee1 = Employee->new({
            name =>$splitrow[0],
            hourlywage =>$splitrow[1],
            hours =>$splitrow[2]
    });
    $EmployeeList->add_Employee( $Employee1 );
}

print $EmployeeList->gist();
print $EmployeeList->average_hourly_wage(), "\n";
print $EmployeeList->find("holli")->pay, "\n";
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