Monk-o-ramas, I've had great experience (2 for 2) finding answers to my questions here, so I thought I'd say thanks first of all for helping me out before. Now, the present question. I'm trying to write a method that will go through the current object (hash) and execute all methods that begin with the '_' character. This is what I have: 
sub runTests {
    my ($self) = @_;

    foreach $symname (sort keys %{$self}::) {
        local *sym = ${$self}::{$symname};

        &$symname if ((definined &sym) && ($symname =~ /_\.*/));
    }
} # sub runTests

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I saw this example in the camel book, but Larry (or Tom or that other guy), had access to the name of the hash, where I don't (well, I'm sure I do, but I don't know how to get it) since I'm inside of an object that hasn't been created yet. I'm getting an error that says: Bad name after :: at Criteria.pm line 68 (line 68 has the foreach in it) when I run 'perl -c Criteria.pm.' ] Thanks in advance! Mark

In reply to running unknown methods by markcsmith

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