I am instantiating two objects in the following way:

my $query = new MyPackage::Query("utf8"); 
my $query2 = new MyPackage::Query("euc-jp");

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Both end up working with euc. What is going wrong? Here's a short version of my constructor:

sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    $self->{input_enc} = shift;  
    
    unless (defined $self->{input_enc}) {
    $self->{input_enc} = "euc-jp";
    }

    #...

    bless($self, $class);
    return $self;
}

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Please tell me if I'm already messing up in the basics or if the mistake is likely to be in the #... part.

In reply to Overwritten instance variables by dime

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