This should get you started: 

package Apache::LogParser;

use Carp;

sub new {
    my ( $class ) = @_;
    my $self = { 
        hits   => { foo => 1, bar => 2 }, 
        misses => { baz => 3, boo => 4 },
    };
    # we need to bless our hash into our class!
 return bless $self, $class;
}

# define an accessor, use wantarray to return hash or hash ref dependi
+ng on context
sub hits {
    my ( $self ) = @_;
  return wantarray ? %{$self->{hits}} : $self->{hits};
}

# define a generic accessor using autoload to save lots of accessor co
+de
# you could also make this a set/get method, it is just a get as shown
sub AUTOLOAD {
    my ( $self ) = @_;
    my ( $func ) = $AUTOLOAD =~ m/::([^:]+)$/;
    if ( exists $self->{$func} ) {
        return wantarray ? %{$self->{$func}} : $self->{$func};
    }
    else {
        confess "Unknown method $func\n";
    }
}

use Data::Dumper;
my $al = new Apache::LogParser;
my %hits = $al->hits;
print Dumper \%hits;
print Dumper scalar($al->misses);
$al->no_existing_method;

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tachyon

In reply to Re: Returning in a module by tachyon
in thread Returning in a module by Mercio

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