Hi,
,
I have wrote the code below in OO programming style, and am trying to get the box printed! But my referencing the hash is incorrect, and I've read several tutorials but still seem to fail to print the box.

Any help gratefully recieved.
Ant
in main.pl 
use shapes;

my %box;
$box{line1} =  ' ---';
$box{line2} =  '|    |';
$box{line3} =  ' ---';

my $box = shapes->new(shape => %box);

exit();

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In shapes.pm

package shapes;

#constructor
sub new {
    my $invocant = shift;    
    my $class   = ref($invocant) || $invocant;
    my $self = {
        shape  => {},
        };
    return bless $self, $class;
}

sub print_shape {
    
   my $self = shift;      
   print $self->{shape}{line1} . "\n";   

}

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