Greetings, I'm looking for a clean way (ie, without using a shell call, grepping, etc) to obtain the list of package names in a module from a calling script. For example, given the following module (Util/Stuff.pm): 
package Util::Stuff;
use strict;
use warnings;

package Util::Stuff::aaa1;
sub flag { 1 }
...

package Util::Stuff::aaa2;
sub flag { 0 }
...

package Util::Stuff::aaa3;
sub flag { 1 }
...
...
1;

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I now want to obtain the list programmatically: 
Util::Stuff:aaa1
Util::Stuff:aaa2
Util::Stuff:aaa3

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Once I have that info in a list, I want to get the flag values: The manual/existing way: 
use Util::Stuff;

my $temp1 = Util::Stuff::aaa1->flag;
my $temp2 = Util::Stuff::aaa2->flag;
my $temp3 = Util::Stuff::aaa3->flag;

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The way I'd like: 
use Util::Stuff;

my @names = **get_package_names(Util::Stuff)**
foreach my $name (@names) {
    push @temp, $name->flag;'
}

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Any pointers would be appreciated.


Regards
Henry

In reply to Accessing list of package names in a module by FreakyGreenLeaky

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