Hello,

I've been searching and trying to find out how to return a perl module pointer that allows me to do the following: 

# data is a pointer
$data = ABC::readdatafile($filename);
print "$data";
# output of print is: ABC::Data=SCALAR(0xc7918)

# my goal is to be able to do use this and features like:
$high = $data->get_high($signal);
$low = $data->get_low($signal);

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above is what I want to do.

When I read the data file (it's a large binary file, with many different data types, stored inside a module), I'm only returning a SCALAR element, with no module information. 

#(inside the module) 
my $ref = \@data; 
return($ref);

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ie. it's returning SCALAR(0xc7918) and not ABC::Data=SCALAR(0xc7918)

I have another module I am using (external module, source code not available) which uses this method, and I would like to follow it.

I would appreciate any suggestions!! Thank you!

In reply to Returning module pointer by yazzle

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