Dear Monks

I have read many things on perl objects and have made a few. But I am perplexed at how to do hashes inside the object.

To give example I want the self hash to have a hash inside it to store things. I would greatly appreciate an example constructor, and get and set methods by key and possibly how to get the hash for internal methods


sub new
{
     my $self  = {};
     
     #error reporting and update vars
     $self->{'error_type'}    = undef;
     $self->{'error_string'}  = undef;

     $self->{'text'}          = undef;
     $self->{'query'}         = undef;
     $self->{'reference'}     = undef;
        
     $self->{'dbh'}           = undef;
     
     $self->{'tokens'}        = %( how do i do this )
      
     bless ($self);

     return $self;

}

sub set_token
{
       my $self = shift;
    
       $self->{'token'}{'$_[0]'} = $_[1];
}

sub get_token
{
       my $self = shift;
    
       return $self->{'token'}{'$_[0]'};
}

sub get_token_keys
{
       my $self = shift;
    
       keys $self->{'token'};

}

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