Hey monks,

this is an apparently easy to answer question, but I have not found an answer with a quick search over perlmonks.
All I want to do is to call a method of a class within the constructor of the class. But at this point it isn't blessed yet. So how do I handle this best without calling the method explicit after creating the object?
Any clues welcome! Thanks in advance.

package Disk;
use strict;

# constructor
sub new {
  my $class = shift;
  my $device = shift;
  my $self = {
    'device' => $device,
    'info' => setInformation($device), # this is the method i want to 
+be called
  };
  bless $self, $class;
}

sub setInformation {
  my $self = shift;
  my $device = shift;
  my $model = qx(hdparm -i $device | grep -i model);
  $self->{'info'} = $model =~ /.*model=(.+?),.*/i;
}

sub getInformation {
  my $self = shift;
  return $self->{'info'};
}

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