Dear Monks,

I'm an OO newbie needing some advice. I need a program that will read from txt files for use in an objects data structure. My confusion is where in the OO design shall I load data files? Do I create functions in the same class? I want to do something like this:

Thanks

Data files:
-------------------------------

pinto.template:

horse_power = 50
price = 10

corvette.template:

horse_power = 200
price = 11000
-------------------------------


package Car;
use strict;

sub new {
        my $type = shift;
        $self->{misc} = undef;
        $self->{blah} = undef;
        bless $self, $type;
}

sub model {
        my $self = shift;
        if (@_) { $self->{model} = shift }
       
}
sub search {
        open files
        parse for data & return...
        init a HASHDB ?
}

------main-----

use Car;

my $my_car = Car->new;
$my_car->model("pinto");
$my_car->search("horse_power");

and later....

$my_car->model("corvette");
$my_car->search("horse_power");

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In reply to Advice on OO Program structure & organization by yoda54

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