Dear monks,

Im struggling with references. Tye's References quick reference is a great for information about dereferencing, and chapter 8 of programming perl has a lot about references. Even with this information however I have still come across a problem.

The following code is part of an object orientated package, hence the self reference (otherwise I could understand manage it) and is trying to use Getopt::Long
sub readoptions {
  my $self = shift;
  # usually I would create a hash %hash = ( foo => \$bar );
  # and reference %hash. unless i'm mistaken this creates
  # an anoymous hash and stores it in $self->{CONFHASH}
  $self->{CONFHASH} = { foo => \$self->{BAR} };
  # first argument to GetOptions woudl usually be \%hash
  GetOptions( $self->{CONFHASH}, 'foo|f' ) or die "option not found";
}

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Yes, this is completely wrong. The result is trying to be something where I can do $self->{BAR} to find an option. Would a fellow monk care to enlighten me?

Update: oops, i stated $self->{CONFHASH}->{foo} when I meant $self->{BAR}, although both ways are good
TIA

In reply to creating references by lilphil

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