I recently learned about object oriented programming in Perl and I wanted to convert my scripts to objects..

I have a script which uses XML::Parser, and I also have the start tag handler, the character handler and the end tag handler as methods in the class..

The problem is that when I try to pass references to these methods inside the class, I get the error
Not a code reference as line xx where line xx is the line where the handlers are set...

This is the code from inside the method start_parse 

my $parser = new XML::Parser(ErrorContext => 2,Handlers => {Start => \
+&{$self->handle_start},
          End   => \&$self->handle_end,
          Char  => \&$self->handle_char});

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I need to have these handlers as methods because they update state variables held inside the class, so I need to pass in the $self reference to the handler somehow..

Can someone please tell me how to fix this ? Thanks

In reply to Perl objects and code references by mallet

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